Mother Quotes: Celebrating the Love & Wisdom of Mothers

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

Marion C. Garretty, Poet

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure"

Petrarch, Poet

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"Diligence is the mother of good luck"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The mob is the mother of tyrants"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"Fear is the mother of morality"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Men are what their mothers made them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Night is the mother of counsels"

George Herbert, Poet

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Fear is the mother of foresight"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"My mother is still battling alcoholism"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it"

Victor Borge, Musician

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

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red"

Method Man, Musician

"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York"

Victor Garber, Actor

"Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice"

Clay Aiken, Musician

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