Mom Quotes

"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important."

"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."

"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."

"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."

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

"Men are what their mothers made them."

"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."

"I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up."

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me."

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

"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."

"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

"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."

"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."

"What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?"

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."

"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother."