Mothers Quotes

Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings. - Jill Ruckelshaus

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. - Elizabeth Kenny

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. - Maya Angelou

It is not that I half knew my mother. I knew half of her: the lower half - her lap, legs, feet, her hands and wrists as she bent forward. - Flann O'Brien The Hard Life

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. - George Eliot

Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! ... We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.... - Julia Ward Howe, promoter of a Mother's Day for Peace

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown. - Henry Ward Beecher

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.  - Mary S Calderone

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in the end doing them irreparable harm. - Marcia Muller

She was the best of all mothers, to whom I owe endless gratitude.  - Thomas Carlyle