These quotes about mothers are all positive, inspirational words of wisdom and love, including some from the perspective of being a mother.

I was eighteen when I became a mother, but not once have I regretted having children at a young age. Being a mother is definitely the greatest experience and joy of my life.

My daughter Julie was such a delightful happy baby, we soon had another, Kevin came along the following year and Emma three years later. I would have liked to have had more children, but it was not to be.

However, time moves on fast and at the age of thirty-six I became a grandmother, since then there have been nine more bundles of joy added to my family, so now my life is blessed with so many to cherish and love.

There is also a page of Mother Sayings from unknown sources.

Quotes about mothers are listed alphabetically on authors surname

A Quotes About Mothers

When you are loving your children and expecting good things for them, you are tapped into the energy of your Source and you’re flooding that all over them.
Abraham-Hicks

All that I am, my mother made me.
John Quincy Adams 1767-1848

I felt so mega having given birth; the confidence from that, I felt unstoppable.
Adele 1988

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
Adele 1988

My main thing is Mum, then it’s me, then it’s work.
Adele 1988

So mother, I thank you for all that you’ve done and still do. You got me, I got you. Together we always pull through.
Christina Aguilera 1980

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop focusing on her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a super model.
Astrid Alauda

But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.
Mitch Albom 1958

When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Mitch Albom 1958

Mothers can forgive anything. Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Louisa May Alcott 1832 – 1888

Mother’s hug..
The only drug that works every time, costs nothing and has no side effects.
Hassaan Ali

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
Joyce Armor

B Quotes About Mothers

A mothers happiness is like a beacon; lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac 1799- 1850

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.
Margaret Culkin Banning 1891 – 1982

I know how to do anything… I’m a mom.
Roseanne Barr 1952

There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr 1952

The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mothers.
James Matthew Barrie 1860 – 1937

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours.. My daughter is the greatest thing I’ll ever do in my life.
Kim Basinger 1953

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.
Marianne O. Battani 1944

I really enjoy being a mum, I love them and I’d do anything for them.
Victoria Beckham 1974

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offence into everlasting forgetfulness.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1987

The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813 – 1887

The mother’s heart is a child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813 – 1887

What the mother sings to the cradle, goes all the way to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887

To a child’s ear, ‘Mother’ is magic in any language.
Arlene Benedict

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my role as a mother, that’s the most important thing I’m going to do in this life.
Halle Berry 1966

I am so ready to be a mommy. I can’t wait. I notice every little baby dress, every baby toy, every little baby thing.
Halle Berry 1966

(My mom) is one of those people that you feel honoured to meet, and no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she’s inspiring, she’s strong, she’s funny, she’s creative, she’s talented.. She’s everything that I want to be.
Beyonce 1981

Don’t listen to anyone’s advice. Listen to your baby. There are so many books, doctors and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, ‘You don’t need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.’
Mayim Bialik 1975

My mom means a lot to me. My mom gave up everything. She moved with me and believed in me. She is awesome.
Justin Bieber 1994

The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.
Rachel Billington 1942

Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
Enid Blyton 1897 – 1968

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.
Erma Bombeck 1927 – 1996

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
Erma Bombeck 1927 – 1996

It is not until you become a mother that your judgement slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck 1927 – 1996

Motherhood is the biggest on-the-job training scheme in the world.
Erma Bombeck 1927 – 1996

Let France have good mothers and she will have good sons.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 – 1821

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 – 1821

A mom reads you like a book and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
Robert Brault

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
Robert Brault

Mom… the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
Robert Brault

There is an instinct in a woman to love her own child, and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
Robert Brault

What is a mom? But the sunshine of our days and the North star of our nights.
Robert Brault

A little girl, asked where her home was, replies, ‘where mother is.’
Keith L. Brooks

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother, the next you are all wise and prehistoric.
Pam Brown 1948

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
Pam Brown 1948

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins. Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
Pam Brown 1948

You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic.. And find every letter you ever sent her.
Pam Brown 1948

Motherhood… all love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning 1812-1889

The whole motivation for any performer is… Look at me Ma!
Lenny Bruce 1925 – 1966

Being a mother has made my life complete.
Darcy Bussell 1969

Although a newborn baby is pure love, it is unable to radiate this love out; it hasn’t learnt this yet, just as it hasn’t learnt to walk. The love is inside it, but it doesn’t know how to give it out. When a mother (or someone else) reaches for the baby with love, the force of love from the mother draws the baby’s love out.
Lorna Byrne 1953

The bonding with a new baby can help people to release love unconsciously.
Lorna Byrne 1953

We are all born pure love. As a baby in our mother’s womb, we all love unconditionally. Everyone of us, regardless of whether we are wanted, or whether our mums have an easy pregnancy or labour, glow with pure love when we are born.
Lorna Byrne 1953

C Quotes About Mothers

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas, creation’s most unique and precious pearl.
Glen Campbell 1936

I loved my mother too, I said. I still do. That’s the thing, it never goes away, even if the person does.
Anna Carey

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever, with affection that no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881

I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because I have a home. I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.
Nancie J. Carmody

Motherhood is, after all, woman’s great and incomparable work.
Edward Carpenter 1844-1929

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.
Edwin H. Chapin 1814-1880

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew. I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977

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.
Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
Winston Churchill 1874-1965

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library.
Sandra Cisneros 1954

A mother is…
A mother, still the holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.
Lance Conrad

Fifty four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.
Noel Coward 1899 – 1973

She made me a security blanket when I was born. That faded green blanket lasted long enough for me to realise that the security part came from her.
Alexander Crane

There is a point when you aren’t so much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.
Jamie Lee Curtis 1958

D Quotes About Mothers

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Roald Dahl 1916 – 1990 (Matilda)

I have not one word of criticism for any mother, anywhere, ever. I know that every mother wants for her child, the absolute best that her mind can fathom.
Esther Davis-Thompson

Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the wisdom is in the trees, some of the wisdom is with the animals. Some of the wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the wisdom is in our minds. All of the wisdom is from the Spirit of God.
Esther Davis-Thompson

To all of you who are trying to mother through personal pain, who are so tired of being tired; I admire you and earnestly pray for your deliverance as you continue to daily endeavor to deliver your children to themselves.
Esther Davis-Thompson

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imaging the person you want to be someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?
Barry Deutsch

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life, the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diamant 1951

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
Princess Diana 1961 – 1997

Don’t call me an icon.. I’m just a mother trying to help.
Princess Diana 1961 – 1997

My mother is a walking miracle.
Leonardo DiCaprio 1974

A mother is one to whom you turn when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone’s uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.
Hilary Duff 1987

There’s something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you’re holding them.
Hilary Duff 1987

E Quotes About Mothers

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Thomas Edison 1847-1931

My mom is the number one person who has taught me to be courteous towards women, to always be respectful and polite to them, and to always lead with your heart.
Zac Efron 1987

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
George Eliot 1819 – 1880

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell.
Euripides 480BC-406BC

F Quotes About Mothers

A mother’s love is something we keep locked deep in our hearts, always knowing it will be there to comfort us.
Harmony Ferrario

Being a mom has made me so tired, and so happy.
Tina Fey 1970

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.
Jane Fonda 1937

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster 1879 – 1970

The older I get, the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday 1933

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday 1933

Mother’s love is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm 1900-1980

G Quotes About Mothers

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion: these are the things my mom taught me.
Lady Gaga 1986

Mothers are like glue.. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.
Susan Gale

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty 1917

When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom and protection.
Geronimo 1829 – 1909

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Mother.. The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

Show me your mother’s face; I will tell you who you are.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

When I meditated upon Jesus I always saw him either as an infant in the manger seeing his mother Mary’s face for the first time, or, staring from the crucifix at his mother Mary’s face for the last time.
Kahlil Gibran 1883 – 1931

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.
Strickland Gillian 1869 – 1954

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‘dark continent’ and because I was a girl.
Jane Goodall 1934

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.
Jane Goodall 1934

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.
Richelle E. Goodrich

I love being with my children. They’re fascinating people.
Amy Grant 1960

Mother’s Hand
As a little girl I held your hand tightly
for the world was a scary place.
As the years went by our clasp loosened
as I became eager to explore.
Then the day came that we both let go
and I was able to walk alone.

Whatever I have faced in my life
I’ve known your hand is always there
for me to hold, if I need.
The warmth of your love
and guidance of your hand
has steered me through the crowd of life
to bring me through.

Now as the years pass
I hold my hand out to you
for I will always be there ~
if you ever need me.
Take my hand and together
we can walk the rest of the path.
Trina Graves 1961

Those Moments I Treasure
With each new day as I awoke
Like a spark I’d remember you were here
A smile would warm my face and heart
Those moments I treasure, so clear

I counted the weeks as they passed by
Your presence I felt growing strong
My joy and excitement thinking of you
Those moments I treasure my life long

You wriggled and kicked more powerfully each month
My body stretching as it nurtured your growth
Blossoming too was my complete devotion to you
Those moments I treasure, unconditional love my oath

Then the moment arrived for us to meet face-to-face
Time stood still with a tangible sense of awe
The miracle of pregnancy and birth is a blessing in life
Those moments I treasure forever more

Now the years have passed and you are grown
But my memory of pure Bliss can still bring a tear
When you were first place in my arms
That moment I treasure most dear

You are: my Joy, my Precious, my Beloved, my Life
I’ve loved you unconditionally right from the start
Though life separates us, our love continues and unites
Our moments I treasure – Eternally you are part of my heart
Trina Graves 1961

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
Spalding Gray 1941 – 2004

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant. I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.
Ellen Greene 1951

Motherhood is never being number one in your list of priorities.. And not minding at all.
Jasmine Guinness 1976

H Quotes About Mothers

As mamas, papas, grandparents, teachers and caregivers we have a responsibility to protect these little Earth warriors. It’s our job to protect and nurture their love, their innocence, their spirits, their imagination, their gifts, their health, and wellbeing, their spirituality, their confidence, their character, their freedom of thought, their instincts, their wildness, and their magic! There is nothing we can do in this lifetime that will compare to the importance of this work. These little ones are our future. Guard them well!
Brooke Hampton

I feel a total kindred spirit with anyone who has lost her mother, especially at a young age. When something like that happens it leaves a hole in your heart that can never be filled. I know I’m not over it. I’ll hear women talk about their mothers and how close the are and it’s so painful. I had a lovely stepmother but it’s not the same as having your own mom. But I do know that the hole in my heart pushed me to want to become the best mother I could be.
Mariska Hargitay 1964

You make sacrifices to become a mother. But you really find yourself and your Soul when you are one.
Mariska Hargitay 1964

My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune.
Gracie Harmon

I’m really clear about my priority in life.. It’s being a mom.
Terri Hatcher 1964

Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability.. 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.
Katherine Butler Hathaway 1890 – 1942

Mother is the one we count on for all the things that matter most of all.
Katherine Butler Hathaway 1890 – 1942

The successful mother sets her children free and becomes more free herself in the process.
Robert Havighurst 1900 – 1991

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mothers.
Goldie Hawn 1945

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mothers secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894

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.
Nicola Horlick 1960

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo 1802-1885

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest service to be assumed by mankind.
Howard W. Hunter 1907 – 1995

I Quotes About Mothers

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us she will endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving 1783 – 1859

J Quotes About Mothers

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826

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 1972

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.
Angelina Jolie 1975

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.
Michael Jordan 1963

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.

K Quotes About Mothers

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.
Mindy Kaling 1979

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 perceptions exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.
Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804

Motherhood is the most completely humbling experience I’ve ever had. It puts you in your place, because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in.
Diane Keaton 1946

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession, that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world, and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy 1890-1995

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month, or a year, but for all eternity. A very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
Rose Kennedy 1890 – 1995

There are no words that could ever describe the happiness and the joy that you feel when you see your son smile in the morning. I just feel so lucky.
Miranda Kerr 1983

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver 1955

Mothers are multi-taskers.
Sophie Kinsella 1969

There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
Sophie Kinsella 1969

L Quotes About Mothers

Just by staring at her baby, the reward centres of a mother’s brain will light up, scientists have found in several studies.
Adrienne LaFrance

Motherhood really is like a secret space in a woman’s brain, waiting to be discovered.
Adrienne LaFrance

The common language shared by everyone in this world is the cry which all mothers understand.
Gopichand Lagadapati

Mother’s love grows by giving.
Charles Lamb 1775-1834

There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
Anne Lamott 1954

You will always be your child’s favourite toy.
Vicki Lansky 1942

Success for me is.. To raise happy, healthy human beings.
Kelly Lebrock 1960

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career.
C. S. Lewis 1898 – 1963

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865

I remember my mothers prayers and they have followed me, they have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865

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.
Shelley Long 1949

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 – 1882

Motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.
Jennifer Lopez 1969

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.
Sophia Loren 1934

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall.. As if the world were mine.
Sophia Loren 1934

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren 1934

My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.
Demi Lovato 1992

The best academy… a mother’s knee.
James Russell Lowell 1819-1891

M Quotes About Mothers

Then someone placed her in my arms. She looked up at me. The crying stopped. Her eyes melted through me, forging a connection in me with their soft heat.
Shirley MacLaine 1934

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.
Maurice Maeterlinck 1862-1949

Appreciate your mom. She is wiser than you think and stronger than you know. Be thankful.
Steve Maraboli

Great mothers build bridges instead of walls.
Reed Markham

Many people have said to me, “What a pity you had such a big family to raise, think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that.” And I looked at my children and I said, “These are my poems, these are my stories.”
Olga Masters

I feel whole at last.
Meg Matthew

Some mothers in today’s world feel cumbered by home duties and are thus attracted by other more romantic challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
Neal A. Maxwell 1926 – 2004

What a difference it makes to come home to a child.
Mary McBride

My mom is my hero. She inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.
Tim McGraw 1967

It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.
Debra Messing 1968

If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.
Emma Michaels

That’s one thing I find about having children – it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who’ve had children.
Rebecca Miller

Think of your mother and smile for all of the good, precious moments.
Ana Monnar

I said I would get better with each baby.. And I have.
Demi Moore 1962

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Christopher Morley 1890 – 1957

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.
Thomas S. Monson 1927

He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you, leaves its own mark.
Movie – Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone

I love being the mother of a two year old. It’s like being a movie star with no critics.
Movie – I Don’t Know How She Does It

There is no greater love on this Earth than that of a mother for her child. The necessary science of love for this planet must therefore start with a right understanding of a mother’s love, the deepest, truest and most cosmic love.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

The same way as the Hopis sing to their corn to make it grow, so should we sing to our whole being, to our body, to our eyes, to our heart, to our mind, to all our helpers of life, the trillions of little cells who work together to make us life. A mother sings to her child. She as very good reason for doing that. A couple sings and dances when falling in love. The whole world must become a Paradise and learn to sing and dance together. World cooperation must take the form of a festival, of a joyous love event.
Robert Muller 1923 – 2010

N Quotes About Mothers

The bond between mother and child is the most intimate one in human experience. Love, welcome, and receptivity at the beginning of life greatly enhance a child’s health and happiness throughout her lifetime.
Christiane Northrup 1949

O Quotes About Mothers

My mother was the one constant in my life.
Barack Obama 1961

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.
Conor Oberst 1980

My mother, a high school teacher, never paid that much attention to what anybody else thought about her. So today I feel comfortable making decisions even if other people don’t agree.
Soledad O’Brien 1966

P Quotes About Mothers

A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities.
Cornelia Paddock

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

As a working mother high heels don’t really fit into my life anymore, but in a totally wonderful way.
Sarah Jessica Parker 1965

Nothing will ever make you as happy or sad, as proud or as tired as motherhood.
Elia Parsons 1937 – 2011

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but, I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1844 – 1911

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a General. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter and I became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

My mother; she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
Jodi Picoult 1966

The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.
Jodi Picoult 1966

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically, but you can’t possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.
Pink 1979

In the heavens above
The angels, whispering to one another
Can find amid their burning terms of love
None so devotional as that of ‘Mother.’
Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

Q Quotes About Mothers

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.
Matthew Quick 1973

Until one becomes a mother, no one can ever tell you what it will feel like to love someone else so deeply and profoundly that you will rejoice when they rejoice, ache when they ache, feel what they feel – even without speaking a word.
Jennifer Quinn

R Quotes About Mothers

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: “So, Did you learn anything today?” But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “Did you ask a good question today?”
Isidor Isaac Rabi 1898 – 1988

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper and reach great heights.
Adabella Radici

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.
Osho Rajneesh 1931-1990

There is no teacher equal to mother.
Amit Ray 1960

I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, what if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.
Julia Roberts 1967

When I was a boy 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 the world.
Fred Rogers 1928 – 2003

I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 – 1962

Stories first heard at mother’s knee are never wholly forgotten.
Giovanni Ruffini 1807-1881

S Quotes About Mothers

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory.. Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.
Kate Samperi

If I were asked to define motherhood, I would have defined it as love in its purest from.. Unconditional love.
Revathi Sankaran

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes though, it’s just pure, unthinking delight.
Barbara Schapiro

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner 1855 – 1920

Mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.
Victoria Secunda

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter’s mouth.
Victoria Secunda

There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.
Saleem Sharma 1964

In raising my kids, I have lost my mind, but found my soul.
Lisa T. Shepherd

I owe her much. I feel deeply that I am the son of woman. Every instant, in my ideas and words (not to mention features and gestures) I find again my mother in myself.
Samuel Smiles 1812 – 1904

Children are the anchors that hold the mother to life.
Sophocles 496BC-406BC

Motherhood is mind-blowing.
Britney Spears 1981

Over the years I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests.
Martha Stewart 1941

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.
Alexandra Stoddard 1941

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 – 1896

Motherhood has a very humanising effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep 1949

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.
Taylor Swift 1989

T Quotes About Mothers

Mother.. That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
Thomas De Witt Talmage 1832 – 1902

A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.
Amy Tan 1952

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Amy Tan 1952

Children are like sponges; they absorb all your strength and leave you limp.. But give them a squeeze and you get it all back.
Ann Van Tassells

Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Ann Taylor

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
Nancy Thayer

There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.
Archibald Thompson

Before I had a child I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It’s extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman 1970

Beautiful as seemed mama’s face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910

A good mother is irreplaceable.
Adriana Trigiani 1970

I like it when my mother smiles, and I especially like it when I make her smile.
Adriana Trigiani 1970

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me.. But I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910

V Quotes About Mothers

She is the creature of life, the giver of life, and the giver of abundant love, care and protection. Such are the great qualities of a mother.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy

The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont

W Quotes About Mothers

There’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
Mark Wahlberg 1971

Our mothers and grandmothers.. Moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker 1944

Becoming a mother is like discovering the existence of a strange new room in the house where you already live.
Sarah Walker

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace 1819-1881

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
Booker T. Washington 1856 – 1915

My mother never gave up on me.
Denzil Washington 1954

My mother was the most beautiful woman. 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.
George Washington 1732-1799

I was not a classic mother.. I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.
Raquel Welch 1940

None but mothers know each other’s feeling when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man and perhaps a stranger.
Emmeline B. Wells 1828 – 1921

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
John Wesley 1703-1791

After my mother.. I never needed anyone else.
Mae West 1893 – 1980

She tried in every way to understand me, and she succeeded. It was this deep, loving understanding as long as she lived that more than anything else helped and sustained me on my way to success.
Mae West 1893 – 1980

Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers.
Bern Williams

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey 1954

Mothers always knows.
Oprah Winfrey

Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.
Rachel Wolchin

Mama was my greatest teacher. A teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder 1950

No one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it, and makes you believe that it is yours to take.
Tristan Wood

Y Quotes About Mothers

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yutang 1895-1976

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