My Mother Quotes

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

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

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.