M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not only is it really hard to shape clay into something really good, but that piece of clay is changing dramatically, all the time, even if you never touch it. A painting won’t get painted if you just leave the canvas alone but a child will still develop into something even if you neglect it. Each mom and each dad has to adapt to what they’re trying to make, hoping to make, and Mom and Dad also have to let that child turn into the creation he or she wants to be. Oh, and then lots and lots of moms and dads have to do this with two or three separate creations, simultaneously. Or, in the case of you, Ora Zella, with eleven creations. How is that not way more impressive than anything a great painter does? Picasso, Shmicasso.”
Source: Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too
“Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and joys and we're really not talking about the joys.”
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
“Mothers are generally starvers or feeders”
“Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.”
“Mothers are ineffable, their prayers the driving force beneath our wings; their discipline, the magnet for honor—irreplaceable love”
“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")”
Source: Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.”
“Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother”.”
“Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.”
“Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.”
Source: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons - One Woman's Quest to Trade Self-Help for Elf-Help
“Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. . . . You go to work when you're sick, maybe even clinically depressed, because motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.”
Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
“Mothers are multi-taskers.”
Source: Mini Shopaholic
“Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parent's marital relationship-- or its unraveling.
When mothers and fathers are supportive or each other, it makes each of their paternal jobs infinitely easier. And parents who cannot bear being in one another's presence reveal as much, if not more, to a child about romantic love as anything the mother or father might say.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.”
“Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.”
Source: Solomon's Oak
“Mothers are our world. Sisters are our sky. Daughters are our stars. Women are our universe.”
“Mothers are our world.
Sisters are our sky.
Daughters are our stars.
Women are our universe.
Friends are our world.
Family are our sky.
Lovers are our stars.
Spouses are our universe.
Adults are our world.
Youth are our sky.
Elders are our stars.
Children are our universe.”
“Mothers are so important. I came across a cable network exec who once told me they don't matter. Well, I disagree. Mothers matter a lot. Without mothers, there wouldn't be people. And mothers watch a lot of the programs on that cable network. No wonder why that network is barely surviving. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Mothers, Knowing Your Viewers, and Strong Leadership”
“Mothers Are So Wonderful
We are the ones who carry babies for months
We feel anxious about their safety
We do our best to keep them healthy
We worry the most when they are thirsty
We feed them when hungry
We are the ones who look after their wellbeing
We ensure our kids’ lives are worthwhile
We find ways to provide optimum care
We are patient to see them grow older
Yes, they always run to us for cover
We are the ones who are called names
When things go wrong with our children
But given no credit when they excel in life
We create conducive environments all the time
We take the bullet for our loved ones
We brace raging storms on their behalf
We are the ones who walk miles
In search of better opportunities for our offspring
We sleep very late and wake up too early
We guide them to achieve great things
We say prayers for them to prosper
God was right to entrust women with childbearing because Mothers are so wonderful”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman
“Mothers are supposed to be weak, weepy creatures, women who give birth to their children and drift peacefully into death, but the Mother is none of those things. She's the brave one, the ruthless one, the witch who traded the birthing-chamber of the battlefield, the kitchen for the knife. Boadicea and heartless Hera, the mother who became a monster.”
Source: The Once and Future Witches
“Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.”
“Mothers are the backbone and strength of civilizations. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.”
“Mothers are the heartbeat of our lives, the ones who guide us through the ups and downs, and the light that shines even in the darkest moments.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“Mothers are the necessity of invention.”
“Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.”
Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers
“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.”
“Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins,
Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.”
“Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.”
“Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.”
“Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.”
Source: NW
“Mothers aren't just women with children in my opinion. They come in many forms, they are grown and evolve from nature and nurture combined.”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!”
“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“Mothers as brave as lionesses, poor Belcourt children, little Kabyles starving to death in 1939 – those people also earned the applause.”
Source: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
“Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
“Mothers can forgive anything!”
Source: Jo's Boys: In Easy-to-Read Type
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”
Source: Jo's Boys: In Easy-to-Read Type
“Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.”
Source: The attaché: or Sam Slick in England
“Mothers can look through a child's eyes and see tomorrow.”
“Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Mothers couldn't be everywhere so they created God.”
Source: You By You
“Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.”
Source: Of Men Made Gods
“Mothers cry because they get so little back.' He leaves the spoon in his mug, holds it to one side with a thumb and takes a sip. 'You spend your life giving everything you've got to your family. Everything: your time, your energy, the last banana in the bowl. Then your children drift away, and they don't look back; not often, not even if they're good children.”
Source: Audrey's Gone AWOL
“Mothers do what they think is best for their children. Even if it breaks them to do so.”
Source: The Old Crones Club: A Fairytale Retelling from the Wicked Witches
“Mothers don’t fight to win. They fight because the end of the world is behind them, not ahead.”
Source: The One Who Refused to Feed: The Real Horror Is What You Can't Forget
“Mothers don't sleep.
They just worry with their eyes closed.”
“Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.”