Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Villaraigosa

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

Benjamin Spock

I really learned it all from mothers.

Bob Hope

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

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.

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.

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)

Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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.

Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

George Eliot

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Gail Tsukiyama

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Ezra Taft Benson

Mothers stay close to your daughters Earn & deserve their love & respect Be united with their father in the rearing of your children Do nothing in your life to cause your daughters to stumble because of your example.

Meryl Streep

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

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.

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.

Jodi Picoult

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

George Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

George Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Jason Thomas

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

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.