Quotes on Mother

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

So mothers have God's license to be missed.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Humility is the mother of giants.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'