Mothers Quotes · Page 29

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what…

— Neil Gaiman

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

— Jose Bergamin

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

— Ashley Judd

May all the mothers, daughters, sons, husbands, friends who past away on 9/11 RIP you will never be forgotten we all miss…

— Anonymous

Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.

— Jack Kirby

Wishing a special Happy Mother's Day to the all the mothers who spend time on their knees before God for the needs…

— Anonymous

“But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months…

— William S. Burroughs

Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that…

— Adrienne Rich

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under…

— Simone de Beauvoir

My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers'…

— Jenna Morasca

Mothers are crying all night long waiting for their kids to come home, can anybody see that somethings wrong. The earth were…

— Claude Kelly

I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it's Friday" to "Thank God it's Monday." If any working…

— Ann Diehl

One of the best things about good mothers is that they remind their children to take care of themselves.

— Kristin Armstrong

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

— Lisa See

“The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.”

— Victor Hugo

Great mothers possess that unique ability to be open and honest with their children in the spirit of love.

— Anonymous

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut…

— Charles Bukowski

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

— Robert Bloch

Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.

— John Dickerson

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether…

— Paula Hawkins

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

— Anonymous

Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.

— Jean Marzollo

Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

— Joan Bauer

“One thing you can say about daughters and mothers—like it or not, they know the truth about each other.”

— Deb Caletti

Mothers are living god on the earth. Because their love and sacrifices can't be matched by any other human being.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Tennis parents and stage mothers should take note. The kid has got to want to do it, not just to please the…

— Jack Hemingway

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one…

— Kelley Armstrong

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

— Gillian Flynn

“I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life…

— Shirley Jackson

Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.

— Anonymous

In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their…

— Bobbi Brown

Mothers are like glue. Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together.

— Anonymous

“What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Happy Mothers Day to the mother's to be, the mother's that are, the father's who are mother's and the mother's no longer…

— Anonymous

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most…

— Maggie Gallagher

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

— Camilla Lackberg