Mother Quotes - Page 7

• There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.

  Mother Teresa

  Catholic, Important, Helping

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.46.

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• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Educational, Ignorance

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• I really learned it all from mothers.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  "TIME" Magazine, April 8, 1985.

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• The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Country, Children, Race

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.77, Penguin

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• 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

  Motivational, Strong Women, Fashion

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Opportunity, Analysis

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• I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

  Little Richard

  Being Strong, Strong Women, Husband

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• No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mom, Daughter, Powerful

  Kathleen Ann Lawrence, Abigail Adams, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1989). “The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America”

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• He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mom, Powerful, Realizing

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  God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

  Muhammad

  God, Mother Daughter, Religious

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• One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Brother, Doors, Library

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Mom, Son, Forever

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• We are all pencils in the hand of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Spiritual, Hands

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Children

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• My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Mom, Wisdom, Community

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• Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

  Katherine Howe

  Relationship, Mother Daughter, Strong

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• When a child is born the mother also is born again.

  Gilbert Parker

  Children, Born Again, Born

  Gilbert Parker (1913). “The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province”

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• If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

  Brigham Young

  Education, Daughter, Son

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• Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Horse, Humorous

  Letter on August 20, 1959. "Rebecca West: A Life". Book by Victoria Glendinning. Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206, 1987.

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• Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Daughter, Astrology

  Voltaire (1989). “Voltaire: selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Boys, Affectionate

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896)

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• Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

  Jay Leno

  Smile, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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