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Mother Quotes by Maya Angelou
- My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated…
- Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
- I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother…
- I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I…
- I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good…
- If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective…
- To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
- A mother's love liberates.
- I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here.…
- If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
- Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a…
- If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or…
- I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is…
- Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
- There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you…
- Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.
- My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
- If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother…
- My mother raised me, and then freed me,
- I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann