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Quotes About Mother

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
~ Charles Francis Richter
I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.
~ Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.
~ David Letterman
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
~ George Herbert
It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
~ James Cook
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.
~ Jane Goodall
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
~ Jean Ingelow
My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.
~ Sanford I. Weill
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
~ Holger Czukay
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
~ Gunter Grass
I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.
~ Greg Bryk
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
~ Diana, Princess of Wales
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
~ Honore de Balzac
Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?
~ G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
~ Nora Ephron
Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.
~ Jason Derulo
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
~ John Calvin
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln
His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow.
~ H. L. Balcomb
The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.
~ Katee Sackhoff
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
~ Calvin Trillin
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
~ Aleister Crowley, Moonchild