Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one.”

— Robert Benchley

152. “Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”

— Voltaire

153. “My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.”

— Wilma Rudolph

154. “In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She’s the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.”

— Vandana Shiva

155. “A people’s relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.”

— John Henrik Clarke

156. “Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.”

— Mother Teresa

157. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.”

— J.K. Rowling

158. “By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

— Cormac McCarthy

159. “The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.”

— M. Russell Ballard

160. “My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.”

— Barack Obama

161. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

— Robert Fulghum

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162. “When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth.”

— Chinua Achebe

163. “Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.”

— Mark Twain

164. “It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.”

— Tupac Shakur

165. “Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”

— Maya Angelou

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166. “A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”

— George Bernard Shaw

167. “I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.”

— Ziggy Marley

168. “There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter.”

— Billy Sunday

169. “I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”

— Adriana Trigiani

170. “A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”

— Amy Tan

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171. “Philosophy is the true mother of science.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

172. “Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

— D. H. Lawrence

173. “You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.”

— Robert Frost

174. “There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love.”

— Mother Teresa

175. “You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”

— George Bernard Shaw

176. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”

— Jodi Picoult

177. “What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an ax.”

— W. C. Fields

178. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”

— Michael Jordan

179. “I’m not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I’m against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

180. “Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.”

— Pope John Paul II

181. “We’re all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

182. “A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.”

— Charles M. Schulz

183. “I’d rather rely on mother nature’s wisdom than man’s cleverness.”

— Wendell Berry

184. “My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It’s an eternal journey.”

— Tupac Shakur

185. “Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.”

— Dave Brubeck

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186. “A direct killing of the innocent child, ‘Murder’ by the mother herself.”

— Mother Teresa

187. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.”

— George Washington

188. “My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.”

— Demi Lovato

189. “Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”

— Louisa May Alcott

190. “The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.”

— Sigmund Freud

191. “My mother told me once that we can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.”

— Veronica Roth

192. “I’m very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”

— Wes Anderson

193. “In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.”

— Erich Fromm

194. “If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”

— Sigmund Freud

195. “They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons – because they installed them.”

— Robin Williams

196. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

— James Joyce

197. “She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name “Mother,” and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

198. “People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

199. “Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.”

— John F. Kennedy

200. “Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.”

— Michel de Montaigne