Mothers Quotes

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

A mother’s love: the sacred relationship of affording a nanny so as to be tolerated as a granny.

How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain."
"Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily.
"My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor there.

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.