Mother Quotes

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

God, Character, Children

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill

Strong, Reality, Living

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
Sophocles

Life, Children, Anchors

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse

True, Children, Wonderful

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

Love, Father, May

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

Happiness, Future, Past

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah Winfrey

Friend, Person, She

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

Life, Face, Loving

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

Father, Son, Republican

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

Love, Father, Deserve

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn Monroe

Time, Long, Find

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Father, Illusion

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Eminem

Understand, Compassion, Definitely

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

Become, Compassion, Until

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

Beautiful, Why, Her

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush

Made, Since, President

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

Work, Home, Alone

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Past, Put, Speak

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West

Him, Kept, Thrown

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers

Life, Husband, Sex

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey

Someone, Makes, Biology

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina Jolie

Morning, Wife, Father

Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato

Necessity, Invention

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.
Sophia Loren

Alone, Thoughts, Her

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

Life, Feeling, Favorite

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck

Business, Society, Single

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

Religion, Wise, Long

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

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