Favorite Mother Quotes

Looking for inspirational mother quotes? Look no further. Celebrate your mom today with one of these mother quotations.

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Our mothers deserve to be celebrated everyday. Call yours today and share one of these wonderful quotes about mothers.

Collection of Mom Quotes

"I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly."
- Mahatma Gandhi


"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
- William Makepeace Thackeray


"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
- Florida Scott-Maxwell


"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
- Rajneesh


"A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child."
- Mahatma Gandhi


"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."
- Cardinal Mermillod


"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
- Oprah Winfrey


"The Mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent."
- Erich Fromm


"A mother's love liberates."
- Maya Angelou


"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
- Pablo Picasso


"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
- Victor Hugo


"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."
- Charlotte Gray


"I am not a perfect mother and I will never be.
You are not a perfect daughter and you will never be.
But put us together and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be."
- Zoraida Pesante


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