Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
Sep 10, 2025
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
Most mothers kiss and scold together.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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.
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
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.
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, but only one mother in the whole world.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
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 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.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a 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.
That best academy, a mother's knee.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
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.