5,322 Quotes About Mother

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.