Mother Quotes

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Agatha Christie

Mother Teresa

Margaret Truman

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Harriet Jacobs

Georges Bernanos

Allan Bloom

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Georges Bernanos

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Louisa May Alcott

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical...

Georges Rouault

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

Eleanor H. Porter

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' or 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them (or their agents, who often adopt similar titles for themselves).

A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Water, who dreamed what was to be; and this was long before the coming of the Wasichus. He dreamed that the four-leggeds were going back into the earth and that a strange race had woven a spider's web all around the Lakotas. And he said: "When this happens, you shall live in square gray houses, in a barren land, and beside those square gray houses you shall starve." They say he went back to Mother Earth soon after he saw this vision, and it was sorrow that killed him. You can look about you now and see that he meant these dirt-roofed houses we are living in, and that all the rest was true. Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.