Quotations About Mothers
Related: Parents, Family, Fathers
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
Women and Beauty
Women and Beauty
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
D.W. Winnicott
Playing and Reality, 1971
Playing and Reality, 1971
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971
New York Times, 26 August 1971
A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
Honoré De Balzac
Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées
Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées
Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Nicholas Breton
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Come, little babe, come, silly soul
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Toni Morrison
Beloved, 1987
Beloved, 1987
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Moorish Proverb
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
Jewish Proverb
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.
English Proverb
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverb
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Russian Proverb
A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Portuguese Proverb
Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
Jacques Seguela
Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas.
Jill Woodhull
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb