Great Mother Quotes:

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

- Greg Bryk

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Mother, Elements, Great Mother

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Son, Loss Of A Parent

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Mom, Mother, Class, Empowering Women, Being A Mother

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Mom, Mother, Essentials, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Motivational, Wise, Peace, Unloved, Poor Family

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

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

- Lin Yutang

topic: Mother, Parenting, Rights, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Sad, I Am Selfish, Selfish Person

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

- Eddy Arnold

source: Song: MOTHER

topic: Mother, Mean, World, Mean The World To Me, Mother Day Poems

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Judgment Of Others

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Marriage, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

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

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom, Yes Or No, Being A Mother

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Motherhood, Your Mom

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Roots, I Love My Mother, Inspirational Mom

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Strength, Leadership, Cheerleading, Paraphrased, Calcutta

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Mom, Baby, Children, Mom And Child, Mothering

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

- Mother Teresa

source: "A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve".

topic: Catholic, Poverty, Naked, Unloved, Poor Family

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

- Alice Walker

topic: Family, Mother, Flower, Mother And Grandmother, Creative Spark

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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 Gillilan

source: Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

topic: Mother, Parenting, Jewels, Mother Son, Special Mother

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.

- Helen Steiner Rice

source: "Mother, I Love You".

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Heart, Special Mother, Being A Mother

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Children, Home, Great Mother

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

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Teacher, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

- Lisa Alther

source: Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

topic: Mom, Mother, Jobs, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

topic: Family, Mothers Day, God, Mom And Daughter, Special Mother

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.

- George Washington

topic: Mothers Day, Beautiful, Appreciation, Mother Son, Son And Daughter

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.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

topic: Family, Beautiful, Mom, Special Mother, Just A Mom

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

- Billy Graham

topic: Christian, Mom, Mother, Inspirational Mothers, Molding

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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.

- Rajneesh

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

- Margaret Culkin Banning

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mom, Children, Home, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

- Olive Schreiner

source: The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883) See Proverbs 129

topic: Mom, Mother, Men, Mother Proverbs, Great Mother

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Baby, Just A Mom, Love Mom

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Hope, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Encouraging, Time, Giving Love, Small Things In Life

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mom, Mother, Heart, Joys Of Motherhood, Slender