mother quotes

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”

— Honore de Balzac

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”

“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.”

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

— Victor Hugo

“The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”

— Victor Hugo

“Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”

“Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.”

— Christina Aguilera

“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. ”

“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. ”

“I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. ”

“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. ”

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“Men are what their mothers made them. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

— Maya Angelou

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.”

— Mick Jagger

“My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”

— Stephen King

“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“If I were dammed 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!”

— Rudyard Kipling

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.”

— Paul McCartney

“My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.”

— Groucho Marx

“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”

— Barack Obama

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