Family: Mother Quotes

Explore thoughtful sayings and timeless reflections that honor mothers, from tender expressions of love to insights about resilience, guidance, and everyday care. This collection welcomes readers seeking comfort, inspiration, or a simple way to say thank you. Whether celebrating a new mom or remembering a lifelong mentor, these quotes highlight the unique bond between mother and child, the wisdom shaped by experience, and the quiet strength that supports families through change and growth.

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

Marion C. Garretty, Poet

Marion C. Garretty

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

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

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

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

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

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

Laurie Anderson

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

Wangari Maathai

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully"

Chris Brown, Musician

Chris Brown

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnessary"

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"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, President

George Washington

"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one"

Merle Travis, Musician

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised"

Amy Lee, Musician

Amy Lee

"In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus, to fail places children in a highly shamed situation"

Michael Lewis, Writer

"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

Franklin P. Jones

"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

Erich Fromm

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

"A kiss from my mother made me a painter"

Benjamin West, Artist

"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement"

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Writer

"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"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

Robert Frost

"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

Camille Paglia

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life"

Marion Jones, Athlete

Marion Jones

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

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