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Quotes about Mother
Quotes about Mother IndexAbout Mothers
"Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, "Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children." "No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones." "Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." "A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." "It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word". "I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Being a Good Mother"Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late...Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter." "Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her. Somehow even her clothes feel different to her children's hands from anybody else's clothes. Only to touch her skirt or her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better." "Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." "There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one." "I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." "Before becoming a motherI had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. "The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories." "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent." "The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Being a Mother"To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens." "I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman." "Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love." "It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "Being a mother is an excitement and enticement and a growth. It is the possibility that haunts and delights the young girl as she grows to womanhood. It is a part of the fantasy, both her longing for it and her fear of it. The months of pregnancy highlight all the richness of the remembered and internalized experience about mothering. The birth itself brings forth the baby, until now a fantasy, into reality. This real baby is a constant changing, crying, knowing being, and for me the delight of this experience has been one of the most important parts of my life as a women." "Being a mother has made my life complete." "Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more." "Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother
Funny"It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it." "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." "One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes." "My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint." "If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." "Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." "Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age." "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home." "If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." "I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother has not expererinced that feeling, her children are not adolescents." "Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother." "The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after." "The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint." "The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires." "The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Hard Working Mothers"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." "The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." "Nobody knows of the work it makes "All mothers are working mothers." "A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Insightful"The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face." "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." "The mother's heart is the child's school-room." "When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Inspirational"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms." "No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life." "Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Jaded"Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines." "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." "My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils." "We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this." "Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day." "Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Men and Their Mothers"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." "A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success." "Men are what their mothers made them." "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." "There was never a great man who had not a great mother." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother and Adult Child"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing." "We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother as Comforter"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." "Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother as Teacher"The mother's heart is the child's school-room." "That best academy, a mother's knee." "One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters." "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother-Child Relationship
"The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated." "Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother-Daughter Relationship"A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships." "As is the mother, so is her daughter. " Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Motherhood"The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed,deserves the highest honor that man can give." "Motherhood is the greatest potential influence in human society. Her caress first awakens in the child a sense of security; her kiss the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. Thus in infancy and childhood she implants ever-directing and restraining influences that remain through life." "Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness." "Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do." "When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child." "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." "Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand." "Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. " "With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood." "I affirm my profound belief that God's greatest creation is womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation." "Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother's Day"Mother's Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived - the Mother of your heart." "The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones." "You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one." "Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother's Love"My Mother's love is the Almond Blossom of my mind and the fragrance is worth dying for. Her gentle compassionate touch shaped my very essence and -- forever -- I shall remember and although we are separated by the corridor of life and the door way of heaven, I will always attempt to become the man that she perceived me to be. I love you mom, where ever you are and I hope you can feel my written word and I envision you enveloped in a shortcut of kindness and love and -- forever -- happy and content. God bless all of the Mother's of his world and other Space Time Continuum." "A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, and it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking." "Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. " "You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all." "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." "Mother's love grows by giving." "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Mother's Prayers"If I was damned of body and soul, "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother New Mother"Before you were conceived I wanted you "The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." "In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Proverbs"God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers." "Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother." "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." "There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Quotes by Famous People"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." "I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother." "It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all." "If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." "Because I feel that in the heavens above "Women know Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled." "It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word. "It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." "No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, and it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking." "I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life." "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." "Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day." "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." "My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation." "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. " "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." "The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms." "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home." "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." "Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see." "I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it." "If I was damned of body and soul, Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman." "Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to." "My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt htat I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The mermory of my mother will always be a blessing to me." "Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all." "The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated." "My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Raising Children"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." "She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in the end doing them irreparable harm." "To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons." "Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Return to Index of Quotes about Mother
Sentimental"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." "I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life." "She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us." "My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt htat I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The mermory of my mother will always be a blessing to me." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely." "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." "A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories." "The sweetest sounds to mortals given "My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights." "Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, "Who fed me from her gentle breast "Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." "Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother "My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation." "Because I feel that in the heavens above "A mother laughs our laughter, "A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, 'where mother is'." "Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb." "Who ran to help me when I fell, Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Women and Their Mothers"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." Return to Index of Quotes about Mother Return to Family Quotes - from Quotes about Mother
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