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Quotes About Mothers

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.
~ John Bowlby
My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.
~ Wes Moore
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
~ Carrie Fisher
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.
~ Lily Allen
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.
~ Judith Martin
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
~ Catharine Beecher
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.
~ Cathy Davidson
Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.
~ Salma Hayek
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
~ John Calvin
There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.
~ Azzedine Alaia
I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.
~ Boris Yeltsin
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
~ F. H. Bradley
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?
~ Anita Diament
From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers
~ Mathew Brady
I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands
~ Milton Berle
UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.
~ Jane Curtin
Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.
~ John Mayer
And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!
~ Joseph Delaney
The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.
~ Joaquin Miller
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
~ Honore de Balzac
To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
~ Fanny Fern