Mothers Quotes

A mother is an unrelenting source of love.

~ Farshad Asl

My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.

~ Frances Hardinge

Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.

~ Ada Palmer

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

~ Kristin Hannah

Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.

~ Sabaa Tahir

If I had still been an immortal, I might have flirted with her myself. But I was now a sixteen-year-old boy. My mortal form was working its way upon my state of mind. I saw Sally Jackson as a mom—a fact that both consternated and embarrassed me. I thought about how long it had been since I had called my own mother. I should probably take her to lunch when I got back to Olympus.

~ Rick Riordan

How much I love my mom cannot be measured in words, it's just too much and too hard to describe.

~ Auliq Ice

Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: '______, with love from Momma.

~ Vincent Starrett

Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.

~ Heidi Schulz

I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of the sky with her fingers. And her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place where I was from.

~ Kami Garcia

I live three thousand miles away from my mother. But no matter how far away, I'm still hers. I'm brave in the ways she's made me brave and scared in the ways she's made me scared. I'll never belong to anyone the way I belong to her.

~ Elizabeth Bard

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

~ Atom Yang

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother thinks was merely cute may have been lethal.

~ Margaret Atwood

Of course she’s right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?

~ Susan Ee

Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal.

~ Margaret Atwood

Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.

~ Kiana Davenport

The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors filled our military hospitals.

~ Diana Mankin Phelps

Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.

~ Bryn Hammond

Mother was a beautiful young woman; the house was too plain, too small to contain her. I watched her; for the first time I understood that she had an inner life that didn't have anything to do with me or my brothers and sisters.

~ Ayana Mathis

Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.

~ Jandy Nelson

Have we ever wondered a mothers silent cries? Her struggles, her fears and her worries? Do we ever have time for this in our busy lives? Have we ever thought of the sacrifices she has done in order to make our lives happier, and her dreams cut short to make our dreams come true?

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we see the essential responsibility God has given women in this world? Their sensitivity to spiritual concerns seems to be farm more innate and natural than a man's. Mothers and wives often are the medium for our intercourse with the heavenly world, the faithful repositories of spiritual knowledge and wisdom. We should all be careful to avail ourselves of the benefits they have to offer both the present generation and the one that will follow us.

~ William Wilberforce

Did you ever look out in that dark and fucked-up world out there and think, how do I let my daughter out into that? And how do i stop her? And the things you can’t stop because you’re … because-

~ Megan Abbott

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby it.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.

~ M. B Antevasin

My mother is a wonderful, eccentric lady who has no concept whatever of interior monologue. We'll be driving along in the car and she'll suddenly say, 'Ants don't like cucumbers, you know. And roaches don't like cinnamon. Do you want some cheese, Michael? Rembrandt was the Lord of the day.' -Mike Myers

~ Mitchell Symons

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

~ Liane Moriarty

She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red.

~ Laurie Lee

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

~ Kelly Corrigan

All mothers are slightly insane.

~ J.d. Salinger

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

~ Brian Spellman

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

~ Fiona Wood

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

~ Matthew Quick

(...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.

~ Tristan Wood

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, andeveryone is hung up on tryingto be a man

~ Phil Volatile

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

~ Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir