5,322 Quotes About Mother

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.