Mothers Quotes

Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows no one else will.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Moms are life's number one cheerleaders without uniforms.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for all.But most o

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas.

~ John Boyne

You just hang in there, boy, hang in with that apprenticeship of yours, do you hear me? You are lucky they would even take someone like you. You’re a child of the slums. A ragtag. On top of that, you’re a whining piece of shit. Nobody will ever do anything for you. Do you understand what I’m saying? They’ll let you starve to death, no problem. Nobody is going to cry on your grave.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer by Steen Langstrup

~ Steen Langstrup

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

~ Milan Kundera

The one who re-creates from that which has died is always a double-sided archetype. The Creation Mother is always also the Death Mother and vice versa. Because of this dual nature, or double-tasking, the great work before us is to learn to understand what around and about us and what within us must live, and what must die.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Like a detective keenly searching for clues, our daughters are solving the mystery of womanhood itself.

~ Melia Keeton-Digby

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

~ Nick Hornby

We mothers have a wonderfully precious and truly powerful role to play in the future self-images of our daughters. The truth is, the most effective way to inculcate in our daughters a fighting chance at life-long self-love and empowerment is not in the books we read to them, or the workshops we send them to, or the media we do or do not expose them to, or even the things we tell them, rather it is in the reflection of self-love and empowerment they see in us, their mothers. The model of our own empowerment gives our daughters permission to be powerful. Of course, culture and societal norms mold our view of ourselves as women, but the beliefs and behaviors of our mothers are far more influential.

~ Melia Keeton-Digby

Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with

~ Melia Keeton-Digby

My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication.

~ Annabelle R. Charbit

There are various names for god- Allah, Almighty, Jesus and hundreds of other names but the one I like the most is 'mother'.

~ Shamsir Alam

We aim to bemen who’ll makeour mothers proud,but we end upmaking them cry,and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers,at best

~ Phil Volatile

A dog's love is only second to that of a mother's.

~ Radhika Mundra

That’s what being a mother is, isn’t it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It’s looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again—mother.

~ Nadia Hashimi

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

~ Dianna Hardy

Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.

~ Connie Kerbs

They hate me because I am the worst thing possible. I am the bad mother.But here's a secret: in America there are no good mothers. They simply don't exist. Always, there are a thousand ways to fail at this singularly important job. There are failures of the body and failures of the heart. The woman who is unable to breastfeed is a failure. The woman who screams for the epidural is a failure. The woman who picks up her child late knows from the teacher's cutting glance that she is a failure. The woman who shares her bed with her baby has failed. The woman who steels herself and puts on noise-canceling earphones to erase the screaming of her child the next room has failed just as spectacularly. They must all hang their heads in guilt and shame because they haven't done it perfectly, and motherhood is, if anything, the assumption of perfection.

~ Nayomi Munaweera

A woman steps out of the back door after an hour of him sitting. Younger than either of us, blonde with a tinge of gray at her temples, the light creases of age in the corners of her eyes, beautiful in the untouchable way of mothers who are our exemplars for what we will admire in women when we come of age.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.

~ J.m. Barrie

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world.

~ Violet James

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

~ Amit Kalantri

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

~ Elizabeth Strout

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup, the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.

~ Lloyd Demause

when you allow that man. to walk through your children. plant his feet. in their veins. hold their voices. necks. bodies. inside his violence. you are no longer a mother. when you give him the key to that door. because you need to be loved by someone. you have seasoned them for the wolf. burned their childhood into a fantasy. it’s going to take a third of their lives. all the courage. from their cells to their hair. to learn the alchemetic formula that turns that kind of betrayal. a demothering. soft. liveable. – before you get that key made

~ Nayyirah Waheed

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.

~ William S. Burroughs

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

~ Stephen King

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

~ Neal Shusterman

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.

~ Margaret Sanger

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

~ Nella Larsen

No place in this world is, as safe as my mother’s womb,And nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.

~ Karin Rahbek

Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.

~ Sadeqa Johnson