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Quotes About Mothers

Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied. ...Fucking Brothers Grimm.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
~ Miriam Makeba
If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.
~ Leymah Gbowee
Denn die reinigendste, die allerschönste Blume der Liebe, aber nur der höchsten Liebe, ist das Verzeihen, darum wird es auch immer an Gott gefunden und an Müttern. Schöne Herzen tun es öfter--schlechte nie.
~ Adalbert Stifter
From windows we hear grieving mothers and snow begins to fall on us, like ash Black on edges of flames, it cannot extinguish the neighborhoods, the homes set ablaze by midnight soldiers
~ Agha Shahid Ali
so long as we have not made the fathers of families not only into Christians but also into apostles, the influence of Christian mothers, great as it is, will be obstructed or short-lived and we will never set the social kingdom of Christ on a firm basis.
~ Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard
She should have. All woman should see it. It's a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face. My son" – he pointed the razor at me – "go west with this face and grow up with the country.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If God listened to mothers," the rabbi responds severely, "we would all rot away in a bog of security and easy living.
~ Andrew Klavan
You're trying to bait a man ambushed in the forest with humanitarianism, calling on his nobler feelings. You're asking him, as I understand, to deign not to spill the blood of the brigands who attacked him. He's to take pity on the thugs because the thugs are poor, have got wives, children and, who knows, maybe even mothers.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
~ Angela Carter
To prevent the death of mothers across our country, we must expand research, implement researched best practices, and fiercely work to understand why African American, Hispanic, and Native American mothers die at even higher rates than white mothers.
~ Abigail Spanberger
I'm sure all the mothers out there can relate when I say family is priority number one.
~ Kim Zolciak-Biermann
Now that I look back, all the things that I was teased about, became game changers and my strengths. That's what we have to learn as mothers. We push our children so much to be perfect, but it's their imperfections that make them unique.
~ Twinkle Khanna
When it comes to babies and children and being a mother, there is so much to talk about. There are products that I keep discovering - endless products! People love to read about these things. And I interview cool mothers, mums with babies, and mums with teenagers... all mums who I admire.
~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld
No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
~ Sam Kean
He had fathered a great brood of us without providing for a proper succession, he had been less than kind to all of our mothers and he then expected our devotion and support. He played favorites and, in fact, it even seemed he played us off against one another. He then got suckered into something he could not handle and left the kingdom in a mess.
~ Roger Zelazny
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
~ Todd Tiahrt
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
~ Roger Bannister
Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise. . .well, nobody would ever learn the piano.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
~ Doris Lessing