Mothers Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Mothers Quotes
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“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 Quotes
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
Washington Irving Quotes
“A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking”
Helen Rice Quotes
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
Erich Fromm Quotes
“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one”
Jill Churchill Quotes
“Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young”
J. D. Salinger Quotes
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
Phyllis Diller Quotes
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.”
Mildred B. Vermont Quotes
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
Jewish Proverb Quotes
“Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
“This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.”
Aristotle Quotes
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“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 Quotes
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
Honore de Balzac Quotes