Famous Mom Quotes

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

"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there"

Robert Browning, Poet

"Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life"

Sophocles, Author

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

Victor Hugo, Author

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

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

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up"

Camille Paglia, Author

"I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"I am no mother, and I won't be one"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me"

Martina Hingis, Athlete

"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done"

Buck Owens, Musician

"I am truly my mother's son"

David Geffen, Businessman

"My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse"

Rebecca West, Author

"My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names"

Alice Walker, Author

"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's"

Kate Hudson, Actress

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

Meryl Streep, Actress

"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully"

Chris Brown, Musician

"I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children"

Jessica Lange, Actress