Mothers Quotes

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

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?

She has given me a way out.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

All mothers are slightly insane.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

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.

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

A mother is an unrelenting source of love.

Of course she’s right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?