Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Edgar Allan Poe

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Eddy Arnold

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Adrienne Rich

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

Agatha Christie

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Meryl Streep

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Doug Stanhope

Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

Bob Hope

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Phil Jones

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

James Russell Lowell

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Pearl S. Buck

...most mothers kiss and scold together.

Phyllis McGinley

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Phyllis Diller

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Toni Morrison

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.

Stevie Wonder

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Lin Yutang

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Robert Frost

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Thomas Moore

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Jason Thomas

The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

George Eliot

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.