My mother use to tell me about the ocean.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell…

— Hope Jahren

The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the…

— David Jeremiah

“An even darker side to the behavior of the needy, victim mother is that she may use her son as a sacrificial lamb. In…

— Susan Forward

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

— Joan Collins

“How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of potential and…

— David Jeremiah

“Would you ever give up the ocean for me?”

— Carrie Ryan

If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight…

— Martha Beck

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself…

— Lights

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

Being a new mother is a blessing.

— Phaedra Parks

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor