Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lauren Bacall

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Jodi Picoult

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Liza Minnelli

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

Michael Jordan

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Princess Diana

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Mitch Albom

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

Mike Wallace

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Phil Jones

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

Nancy Thayer

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

James Russell Lowell

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

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.

William Feather

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Jennings Bryan

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

Rudyard Kipling

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Lin Yutang

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

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.

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!

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.

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!