Famous Mom Quotes

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there"

Robert Browning, Poet

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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

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

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

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

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"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

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

Rebecca West, Author

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

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

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

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"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

"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

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

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

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

Clay Aiken, Musician

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

Meryl Streep, Actress

"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

"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

"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 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 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

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

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I am truly my mother's son"

David Geffen, Businessman

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully"

Chris Brown, Musician

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

Candice Bergen, Actress

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

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her"

Ellen DeGeneres, Comedian

"I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

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