569 Quotes About Mothers

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother", everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"...

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.