Country Quote by Mathew Brady

In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful…

— Alexandra Fuller

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and…

— Edward Everett Hale

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

— Thomas Jefferson

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

— Mahatma Gandhi

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

— Allen Toussaint

Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's…

— Zainab Salbi

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and…

— Oprah Winfrey

“Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers— past & present.”

— Eleesha

“I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many…

— Mary Shelley

It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of…

— Russell M. Nelson

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman…

— Bernice King