Home / Topics / Mother Quotes

Mother Quotes

Browse 12321 quotes about Mother.

Mother Quotes

“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

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

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”

Way Children Today Faces Mother Waiting Challenges Messages Fulfilled Mother And Child Challenges We Face

Author:Lee Jong-wook

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.”

Children Book Stories Mother Found Lost Journey Cry Identity Dare Memoir Celebrate Remarkable Primal Candid Mother And Child Lost And Found

Author:Mira Bartok

“I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.”

“Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.”

Heart Children Mother Love Is Bridges Links Mother And Child Heart To Heart

Book:Mother Stories

Source: Mother Stories

“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.”

“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.”

Children Feelings Beautiful Mother Simple Imagine Holy Pure Ties Links Construction Fidelity Withered Emblems Mother And Child Immaculate Simple And Beautiful

Author:Washington Irving

“A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.”

May Children Mother Turns Father Endure My Mom Sister Mother Love Mother's Love Mother And Child Mother Proverbs Love For My Mother Mom And Child Love My Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.”

Children Long Reason Mother Hate Independent Endure Mother And Child

Book:The Iron Woman

Source: The Iron Woman

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”