Mother Quotes · Page 30

A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good…

— Condoleezza Rice

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of…

— Judy Woodruff

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it…

— Mary McCarthy

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as…

— Elinor Smith

My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.

— Claes Oldenburg

Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the…

— Carl Jung

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

— Mother Teresa

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.

— Adam Levine

“We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for…

— Angela Alioto

“I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the…

— Karen Thompson Walker

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and…

— Thomas Merton

Raising three sons is the greatest responsibility of my life, and as a mother I believe it is so important that my…

— Kendra Scott

From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her…

— Edmund White

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.

— Hope Solo

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

— Heidi Klum

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

— Ritu Ghatourey

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Kids are anchors of mothers' life

— Sophocles

“Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.”

— Dallas Willard

God is so much nicer than you can imagine. I know "nice" is an odd word, but He loved you enough to…

— Mark Lowry

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth.

— Oprah Winfrey