Mom Quotes

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.