35 Mother Quotes

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

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.

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares,and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy.

It wasn't until some time later that I realized that, without it being one of the most momentous encounters in western literature, my mother had met T. S. Eliot. I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. 'The thing is,' I said finally, 'he won the Nobel Prize.' 'Well,' she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, 'I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.'

O infinitely human, yet divine! Half clinging childlike to the mother found, Yet half repelling - as the soft eyes say, 'How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not That I must be about my Father's business?'

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him.

For God, who lives above the skies, Would look with vengeance in his eyes If I should ever dare despise My mother.

Reaching out for that hand to hold. Reaching out for the Star. Reaching out for the Star that explodes. Reaching out for Mama.

My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend.

Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!

First, I wanna say 'Peace to my mother. She's not here but I gotta give a 'peace out' to her because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my mother.

Dear Mama, can you save me?

She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.

And all my childhood memories/Are full of all the sweet things you did for me/And even though I act craaazy/I gotta thank the Lord that you made me

More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would

'My part in bringing up Aryan, is similar. Gauri is very proud of me. I don't think she will mind if Aryan learns some of my values. She knows that I'm a little strange but there's also something which is right about me. That's why she married me. Of course, Gauri wouldn't want Aryan to be as mad as I am! From my side, he's okay!' - Shahrukh

And I realize momma really paid the price/She nearly gave her life, to raise me right

I have lost my beloved mother, and New York and the world have lost a great lady. She was one of a kind in every way. Her tombstone will be inscribed with the words she specifically asked for: 'I had a wonderful life.'

In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

My mother treated us all equally ... with contempt.

Please respect our need to grieve privately. My heart is broken. I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time, and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up with the best memories of him.

'It don't have to be mother's day or your birthday, for me to just call and say, hey mama.'

In choosing a wife, a man does not renounce his mother, and still less is he justified in breaking her heart.

If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.