Inspirational Quotes About Mothers

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“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”
– Jodi Picoult

“You are evidence of your mother’s strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”
– Criss Jami

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don’t want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they’re doing those kids a favor. They’re just trying to give them a better life.”
– Jodi Picoult

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It’s a lifetime in itself.”
– Mitch Albom

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
– Erma Bombeck

“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”
– Margaret Sanger

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
– C.S Forester

“A good mother is irreplaceable.”
– Adriana Trigiani

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”
– Margaret Dilloway

“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.”
– Kate Samperi

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere”
– Peter Abrahams

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”
– John Irving

“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)”
– Kristina Riggle

“I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.”
– Neal Shusterman

“But my mother’s life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.”
– Jacqueline Kelly

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”
– Virginia Woolf

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”
– Golda Meir

“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”
– James Fenton

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
– Florida Scott Maxwell

“Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.”
– Elaine Heffner

“A mother understands what a child doesn’t say.”
– Jewish Proverbs

“Who takes a child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.”
– German Proverb

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.”
– Danish Proverb

“What the child says, he has heard at home.”
– African Proverb

“The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
– Robert Browning

” Making a decision to have a child-it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
– Elizabeth Stone

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