Quotes on Mom

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.