My Mother Quotes

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother!

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.

War is the mother of everything.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.