Mother quotes

“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

“No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.” Ronald Reagan

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” Ellen DeGeneres

“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.” Ellen DeGeneres

“As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'” Bill Cosby

“Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.” Ingrid Bergman

“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.” David Bowie

“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.” Charles Stanley

“To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.” Angelina Jolie

“There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.” Angelina Jolie

“My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.” Michael Jackson

“I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.” Elizabeth Taylor

“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” Elizabeth Taylor

“She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.” Oprah Winfrey

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” Oprah Winfrey

“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.” Oprah Winfrey

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.” Oprah Winfrey

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Poverty is the mother of crime.” Marcus Aurelius

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” Robert Browning

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” Ambrose Bierce

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.” Chief Joseph