Top Mother Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Mother quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Eric Berne
Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others
- Eric Berne
Collection: Mother
Image of L. Tom Perry
Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?
- L. Tom Perry
Collection: Mother
Image of Max von Sydow
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor
- Max von Sydow
Collection: Mother
Image of Julian of Norwich
As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
- Julian of Norwich
Collection: Mother
Image of Marjorie M. Liu
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
- Marjorie M. Liu
Collection: Mother
Image of Rachel Weisz
The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.
- Rachel Weisz
Collection: Mother
Image of Elayne Boosler
My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.
- Elayne Boosler
Collection: Mother
Image of Max Ehrmann
Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.
- Max Ehrmann
Collection: Mother
Image of Claire LaZebnik
Isabella: "Why are you being so mean to me?" Harry: "Because i love you" Isabella: "Does that ever work?" Harry: "On my mother it does." Isabella: "I'm not your mother." Harry: "I know that already, because I'm enjoying your company.
- Claire LaZebnik
Collection: Mother
Image of Andrew Harvey
Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Mother
Image of Andrew Harvey
Coming into contact with the Mother is coming into contact with a force of passionate and active compassion in every area and dimension of life, a force that longs to be invoked by us to help transform all the existing conditions of life on earth so that they can mirror ever more clearly and accurately her law, her justice, and her love.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Mother
Image of Andrew Harvey
Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Mother
Image of Andrew Harvey
The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Mother
Image of Andrew Harvey
What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Mother
Image of Andrew Harvey
Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species.
- Andrew Harvey
Collection: Mother
Image of Egon Schiele
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices
- Egon Schiele
Collection: Mother
Image of Ami McKay
How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.
- Ami McKay
Collection: Mother
Image of Beth Kephart
Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.
- Beth Kephart
Collection: Mother
Image of Geraldine Brooks
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.
- Geraldine Brooks
Collection: Mother
Image of Jacques Pepin
The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.
- Jacques Pepin
Collection: Mother
Image of Myles Munroe
In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Mother
Image of Francis Thompson
Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.
- Francis Thompson
Collection: Mother
Image of Fred Rogers
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.
- Fred Rogers
Collection: Mother
Image of Harold Brodkey
My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
- Harold Brodkey
Collection: Mother
Image of Marina Warner
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.
- Marina Warner
Collection: Mother
Image of Linda Lael Miller
I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.
- Linda Lael Miller
Collection: Mother
Image of Chaz Bono
It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.
- Chaz Bono
Collection: Mother
Image of Erin McKean
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.
- Erin McKean
Collection: Mother
Image of T.C. Boyle
I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour, it's going to be like your mother reading to you. We're going to remember why we love stories. I think that gets lost in over-intellectualizing.
- T.C. Boyle
Collection: Mother
Image of John Wesley
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
- John Wesley
Collection: Mother
Image of Elizabeth Scott
Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.
- Elizabeth Scott
Collection: Mother
Image of Elizabeth Scott
My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.
- Elizabeth Scott
Collection: Mother
Image of Phyllis Schlafly
Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.
- Phyllis Schlafly
Collection: Mother
Image of Joseph Bruchac
If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.
- Joseph Bruchac
Collection: Mother
Image of Boris Yeltsin
I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.
- Boris Yeltsin
Collection: Mother
Image of Benjamin Tucker
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.
- Benjamin Tucker
Collection: Mother
Image of Hanna Rosin
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
- Hanna Rosin
Collection: Mother
Image of Hanna Rosin
In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.
- Hanna Rosin
Collection: Mother
Image of Aimee Mullins
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
- Aimee Mullins
Collection: Mother
Image of Scott Heim
The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.
- Scott Heim
Collection: Mother
Image of Lisa Gardner
My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.
- Lisa Gardner
Collection: Mother
Image of Claire Messud
When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]
- Claire Messud
Collection: Mother
Image of Sonya Sones
Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back
- Sonya Sones
Collection: Mother
Image of Sonya Sones
What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her
- Sonya Sones
Collection: Mother
Image of Laura Moriarty
My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.
- Laura Moriarty
Collection: Mother
Image of Nancy Holder
Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.
- Nancy Holder
Collection: Mother
Image of Liu Xiaobo
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
- Liu Xiaobo
Collection: Mother
Image of Paula McLain
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.
- Paula McLain
Collection: Mother
Image of Herman E. Daly
Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.
- Herman E. Daly
Collection: Mother
Image of Elijah Wood
I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.
- Elijah Wood
Collection: Mother