Mothers Quotes

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Become, Tragedy

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

Children, Fathers, Fonder

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling

God, Made, Everywhere

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy

Become, President, Process

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
Caroline Kennedy

Life, Work, Family

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Evan Bayh

Men, Children, Single

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt Romney

Love, Family, God

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky

Fear, Control, Crime

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

Children, After, Sick

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster

Sure, Meet, Nations

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite

Love, Food, Career

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack Obama

Pain, Lost, Battle

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

Flower, Creative, Often

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
Miriam Makeba

Future, Society, Focus

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf

War, Soldier, Means

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Amy Heckerling

Care, Someone, Baby

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

Two, Hands, Works

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher

Love, Good, Reason

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Alice Hoffman

Work, Time, Children

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Time, Great, Off

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker

Simple, Ourselves, Seems

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Sad, Geniuses

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier

Women, Men, Society

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant

Time, Tired, Find

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott

Help, Through, Troubles

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky

Future, Children, Give

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Religion, Women, Men

Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. Salinger

Insane, Slightly

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson

Necessity, Invention

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