"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."
Read quote
7 likes
Mother quotes
Mother
11.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mother
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mother — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mother quotes (page 54 of 560)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there."
Read quote
7 likes
"It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion"."
Read quote
7 likes
"Censorship is the mother of metaphor."
Read quote
7 likes
"A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers."
Read quote
7 likes
"My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch."
Read quote
7 likes
"Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty."
Read quote
7 likes
"My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship."
Read quote
7 likes
"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties"
Read quote
7 likes
"My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts."
Read quote
7 likes
"Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute."
Read quote
7 likes
"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."
Read quote
7 likes
"I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me."
Read quote
7 likes
"My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife."
Read quote
7 likes
"There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences."
Read quote
7 likes
"I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out."
Read quote
7 likes
"We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God."
Read quote
7 likes
"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike."
Read quote
7 likes
"Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her."
Read quote
7 likes