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Quotes About Mothers

Mothers are always sending me pictures of their daughters.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
It is imperative that mothers understand their child's behavior and not blindly support the wrongdoings or faults in their sons.
~ Jaya Prada
After 'Gandhi', Bollywood offered me mothers' roles. I played mother to heroes older to me like Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakrbaborty.
~ Rohini Hattangadi
She was from an era when daughters were dutiful and deferential to their mothers, at least until they married and deferred to their husbands – not that Mrs. Speedwell had ever deferred much to hers.
~ Tracy Chevalier
I could no more love a man of the sword than either of our mothers. So, tell me, Stryder. How do we get out of this? (Rowena) I don't know. Murder? (Stryder)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Oprah had no sympathy for welfare recipients and frequently berated them. 'I was a welfare daughter, just like you….How did you let yourselves become welfare mothers? Why did you choose this? I didn't.
~ Kitty Kelley
The truth is that a lot of these men don't know how to relate to lovers, so they only view women as sisters or mothers. It truly grieves me! I feel so bad for all these daughters who are awakened for love, but are living among boy/men who are asleep to manhood.
~ Kris Vallotton
Because some adopted kids do. They feel like their mothers—because it's always the mothers, since we were the ones who were pregnant—abandoned them. There's a theory that every adopted kid is traumatized because they were adopted.
~ Kristan Higgins
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
~ Caroline Kennedy
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.
~ George R.R. Martin
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
~ Georges Bernanos
Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers to tell themselves that, at the very moment it has occurred to them, there already exists a woman who is making her way towards their son from the depths of eternity.
~ Georges Rodenbach
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
~ Will Durant
Today's practice is about clearing and releasing the hurts, wounds, and judgments you may hold about or against women. Our experience and expectations of women begins with our mothers. Chances are if we have any judgments about our mothers, they will extend to other women.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
You are the son other mothers may only wish for." "How can that possibly be true," he said softly. "How can it not." -Rehv's mother and Rehv
~ J.R. Ward
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.
~ Jack London
I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.
~ Ryan Zinke
Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.
~ Yoshikani Taki
I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
~ Alice Walker
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
~ Will Rogers
Another way to spot chickenheads is by checking out their navels. Many chickenheads had mothers who didn't know how to properly remove their umbilical cords when they were babies. (You can't use cocoa butter to help remove the umbilical cord.) This causes their navels to protrude or become slightly disfigured as they grow up. Beware. And
~ Tariq Nasheed
But why does she limit her search to France? Are there no decent mothers to be found elsewhere?" "There might be, but the food wouldn't be nearly so good,
~ Tasha Alexander
We orphans We lament to the world: Stones have become our playthings, Stones have faces, father and mother faces They wilt not like flowers, nor bite like beasts-- And burn not like tinder when tossed into the oven-- We orphans we lament to the world: World, why have you taken our soft mothers from us And the fathers who say: My child, you are like me! We orphans are like no one in the world any more! O world We accuse you!
~ Nelly Sachs