Actions Quotes Logo

Mother Quotes

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...

Show More
Picture of Alice Miller (psychologist)
Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

Show More
Picture of Alice Miller (psychologist)
Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

Show More

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel...

Show More

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...

Show More

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...

Show More

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from hig...

Show More

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even wh...

Show More

Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open ...

Show More

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care e...

Show More

See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

Show More
Picture of Amit Ray
Amit RayWorld Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enrichi...

Show More

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without w...

Show More

Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He pra...

Show More
Picture of Amy Tan
Amy TanThe Joy Luck Club

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her...

Show More

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by som...

Show More

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sand...

Show More

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should...

Show More

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast...

Show More

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could...

Show More

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted ...

Show More

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at lea...

Show More

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petti...

Show More

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a ...

Show More

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but thes...

Show More

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ...

Show More

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, a...

Show More

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...

Show More

I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that fr...

Show More
Picture of Anne Lamott
Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great ...

Show More
Picture of Anne Lamott
Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the i...

Show More

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mo...

Show More

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my ...

Show More

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the...

Show More

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m...

Show More

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her no...

Show More

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the mor...

Show More

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can ...

Show More
B
Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

B
Barbara KingsolverThe Poisonwood Bible

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my...

Show More

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's fa...

Show More

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and ...

Show More

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a ...

Show More

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats ...

Show More

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's i...

Show More

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

I forget your name," I said."Most people spew shit from their arse," he retorted, "you manage it wit...

Show More

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...

Show More

My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean... sometimes I have to be me...

Show More

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

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, dri...

Show More

You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from r...

Show More

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinn...

Show More

I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving up...

Show More
Picture of Brigham Young
Brigham YoungThe Best of Women's Conference: Selected Talks from 25 Years of Women's Conference

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through m...

Show More

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...

Show More

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

Show More

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a...

Show More

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited...

Show More

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer....

Show More

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day li...

Show More

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for t...

Show More

Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mot...

Show More

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

A child cannot pay for its mother's milk

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; m...

Show More

That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth I listened to D...

Show More

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...

Show More

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi...

Show More

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ...

Show More

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I ki...

Show More

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

Show More

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discern...

Show More

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about...

Show More

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so...

Show More

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

Show More

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, ...

Show More

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The ch...

Show More

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Pr...

Show More

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

Show More
Picture of Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now and Other Stories

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...

Show More