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Quotes About Mother

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
~ Hoagy Carmichael
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
~ E. V. Lucas
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
~ Penn Jillette
Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
~ Jennifer Esposito
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.
~ Tracy Morgan
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.
~ Philip Larkin
I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.
~ Sophie Calle
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.
~ Alistair Begg
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
~ William McKinley
Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
~ Pam Brown
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
~ Lionel Blue
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
~ Alice Walker
Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.
~ Pope John Paul II
I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
~ Bernard Williams
When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.
~ Kevin Spacey
I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.
~ Anita Hill
Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.
~ Ashley Judd
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
~ Anne Sexton
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.
~ Gene Wilder