Famous sayings about Mothers, Moms - Family Quotes

Mom, I don’t tell you this often enough, but I really love you. You’re such an important person in my life and I appreciate all that you do for me. Thanks for all the sacrifices you’ve made. Please know that they don’t go unnoticed.

 MOTHER QUOTES

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

-- Alice Walker 

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

-- Anna Quindlen

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

-- Barbara Schapiro

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

-- Bern Williams

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

-- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

-- Charles Wadsworth

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

-- Dorothy C. Fisher 

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

-- Elain Heffner

There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

-- H. R. Schaffer

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

-- Heather Armstrong

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

-- Jill Churchill

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

-- Mark Twain

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

-- Rita Rudner

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

-- Rita Rudner

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

-- W. Somerset Maugham 

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

-- Pearl Buck

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