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Quotes About Mother

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.
~ Gene Wilder
Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
~ Cotton Mather
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.
~ Karl Marx
For me, my mother is everything.
~ Mario Balotelli
She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to even live among the Clans. I'll never forgive you for what you've done! Never!
~ Erin Hunter
No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.
~ John Eudes
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
A mother is the truest friend we have.
~ Washington Irving
Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
~ Martin Amis
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
~ Anne Lamott
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
~ Barry Sanders
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.
~ Pedro Almodovar
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
~ Samuel Lover
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
~ Robert Frost
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
~ Matt Damon
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
~ August Bier
I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
~ Robert Breault
I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
~ Billy Sunday
I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, "Marry him, you'll double your wardrobe."
~ Joan Rivers
You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.
~ Rick Riordan
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
~ Pope John Paul II
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
~ Hedy Lamarr