Mother Quotes - Page 6

• If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

  Mother Teresa

  Believe, Praying, Calcutta

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• Peace begins with a smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Spiritual

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.13, New World Library

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• I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Life, Courage, Thinking

  "Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service" by Larry Neumeister, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2008.

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• 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

  Mom, Growing Up, Parenting

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Family, Inspiring, Mothers Day

  Barbara Kingsolver (2001). “Homeland and Other Stories”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

  Mother Teresa

  Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Giving

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

  Washington Irving

  Family, Mom, Children

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mom, War, Heart

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• All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

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

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• Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

  Toni Morrison

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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

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• I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

  Marguerite Duras

  Believe, People, Childhood

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.49, Grove Press

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• The watchful mother tarries nigh
  Though sleep have closed her infant's eye,
  For should he wake, and find her gone.

  John Keble

  Sleep, Eye, Infant

  "The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year".

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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Family, Beautiful

  "Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents". Book by Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (p. 144), 2004.

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• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mom, Negative

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• The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Family, Mothers Day, Father

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Humorous, Careers, Feminist

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  Camille Paglia

  Mom, Fall, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.23, Vintage

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• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Pain, Loneliness

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Party, Men

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Mom, Time, Loss

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Mom, Children, Comfort

  Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1901). “The Outlook”

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• How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

  Jules Michelet

  Family, Children, World

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