60 Mother Quotes

* 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. ~ Washington Irving

* But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin. ~ Mitch Albom

* If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter. ~ Anchee Min, 

* No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln

* I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ~ Lana Del Rey

* The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
~ Mother Teresa

* In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe. ~ N.K. Jemisin

* My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. ~ George Washington

* But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

* The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress. ~ Chuck Palahniuk 

* Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

* What's your heart telling you to do?

I don't know.'

Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it. ~ Nicholas Sparks

* That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ~ Kristin Hannah

* Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows. ~ Joanne Harris

* I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

* My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me. ~ R.J. Palacio

* I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents. ~ Jarod Kintz

* The best place to cry is on a mother's arms. ~ Jodi Picoult

* I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed to picking up on political rhetoric. ~ Jarod Kintz

* Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

* No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

* I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. ~ Adriana Trigiani

* How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell. ~ Jarod Kintz

* I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. ~ Mitch Albom

* Necessity may be the mother of invention, but who is the father? Don’t look at me! I wore a condom. ~ Jarod Kintz

* You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. ~ Criss Jami

* I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. ~ Mitch Albom

* I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? ~ Spencer W. Kimball

* Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. ~ John Steinbeck

* The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother.

~ C. JoyBell C.

* A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

* My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. ~ Sylvia Plath

* By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. ~ Cormac McCarthy

* He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

~ J.K. Rowling

* Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

* You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized. ~ Kyung-sook Shin

* The greatest heroes in life are those that never give up on someone. They stick it out and make it work. They sacrifice things in their life, in order to help others grow. They give up what they want because someone needs it more. They work hard and overcome adversity. They fail for a moment, but get back up on their feet to show others they don’t have to stay down. They show their loved ones that love is not “proved” by conformity. They teach others that having a voice is a sign of courage, and they will not stay silent to make people feel comfortable. They are fearless and will do whatever it takes to bring about the greatness in the ones they love because doing so brings them peace. Their name is---MOM. ~ Shannon L. Alder

* Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

* I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime? ~ Criss Jami

* I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? ~ Eve Merriam

* When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day ~ Sam Ewing

* Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving. ~ Augusten Burroughs

* I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words. ~ Jodi Picoult

* My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life. ~ Jarod Kintz

* She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother. ~ Denis Johnson

* May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

* If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes. ~ Jarod Kintz

* Some people say—not to my face, mind you—that I’m a cowardly son of a bitch. And that is simply not true. My mom is not a bitch. ~ Jarod Kintz

* The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this question than you can begin to imagine. ~ Janet Fitch

* You're the kind of man my mother warned me about. ~ Christine Feehan

* Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide. ~ Amit Ray

* Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the center of a closed circle - that of mother's body, arms, and the picture book... That circle, so private and intimate, is a place apart form the demands and stresses of daily life, a sanctuary in and from which the child can explore the many worlds offered in picture books. Despite all of our society's technological advances, it still just takes one child, one book, and one reader, to create this unique space, to work this everyday magic. ~ Martha V. Parravano

* But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way. ~ Adriana Trigiani

* Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person. ~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey