mother quotes

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

— Mother Teresa

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

— Aristotle

“My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.”

— Henny Youngman

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”

— Agatha Christie

“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

— Pablo Picasso

“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”

— Sigmund Freud

“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”

— Coco Chanel

“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”

— Euripides

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

— Honore de Balzac

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

— Honore de Balzac

“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

— Honore de Balzac

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”

— Honore de Balzac

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”

— Sophocles

“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.”

— Sophocles

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

— Victor Hugo

“The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”

— Victor Hugo

“Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”

— Eminem

“Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.”

— Christina Aguilera

“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. ”

— Jim Carrey

mother quotes

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

“Necessity... the mother of invention. ”

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”

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

“My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.”

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”

“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”

“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”

“My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. ”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”

“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”

“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”

“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.”

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

“The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”

“Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”

“Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.”

“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. ”