mother quotes

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” 

― Washington Irving

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”

― Mitch Albom

“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”

 ― Anchee Min, Red Azalea

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

 ― Karl Lagerfeld

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

“The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace” 

― Mother Teresa

“I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.” 

― Lana Del Rey

“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.” 

― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.” 

― Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

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

― George Washington

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.” 

― Chuck Palahniuk

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” 
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel


“What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.” 
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.” 
― Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow


“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.” 
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.” 
― Mitch Albom


“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.” 
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules


“No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.” 
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In


“My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.” 
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder


“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.” 
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.”

― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it s



“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.” 
― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life


“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” 
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“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, Killosophy