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

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

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there"

Robert Browning, Poet

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"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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"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

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"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

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

Mel Gibson, Actor

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"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

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

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

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

Merle Travis, Musician

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell, Writer

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"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

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

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

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

Alice Walker, Author

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"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement"

Germaine Greer, Activist

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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

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"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

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"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"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

"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

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

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

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"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

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

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

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

Sophocles, Author

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"Men are what their mothers made them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

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"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

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

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

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