Mothers Quotes

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see, or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.” Alice Walker

 

“Whenever I’m with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.” Amy Tan
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.” Ariel and Will Durant

 

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

 

“Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.” Colette

 

“The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of the tires.” Dorothy Parker

 

“Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.” Elaine Heffner

 

“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.” Florida Scott-Maxwell

 

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.” Golda Meir

 

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.” Jane Welsh Carlyle

 

“The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.” Jill Bensley

 

“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

 

“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.” Margaret Sanger

 

“A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.” Margaret Sanger

 

“With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.” Marge Piercy

 

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” Michael Levine

 

“Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.” Nancy Friday

 

“I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” Pearl S. Buck

 

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” Tenneva Jordan

 

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” Theodore Hesburgh