Mothers Day Quotations

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

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

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

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

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.

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

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

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

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

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

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

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

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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

All mothers go through the exact same things.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

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

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

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

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

I really learned it all from mothers.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.