Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.”

— Henry David Thoreau

202. “Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.”

— Thomas Carlyle

203. “I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

204. “My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.”

— Steve Jobs

205. “Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.”

— Salvador Dalí

206. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.”

— Booker T. Washington

207. “My mother once said “If you don’t pay attention to age, then it won’t pay attention to you.” And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t buy it.”

— Cher

208. “The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

209. “Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.”

— Anna Quindlen

210. “Go take the mother’s soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.”

— Leo Tolstoy

211. “Desire is the Mother of Motivation because that is where Motivation is born.”

— Zig Ziglar

212. “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

213. “Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.”

— Sophocles

214. “A mother’s love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

215. “When people say money doesn’t matter, it sure as hell does when you’re able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.”

— Tony Robbins

216. “Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”

— Edmund Burke

217. “Censorship is the mother of metaphor.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

218. “A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself.”

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

219. “Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

220. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

— Victor Hugo

221. “The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.”

— Cormac McCarthy

222. “There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him “Was your mother never at Rome?” He answered “No Sir; but my father was.””

— Francis Bacon

223. “My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that’s why she was a Black Panther.”

— Tupac Shakur

224. “More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

225. “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

— Sigmund Freud

226. “We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.”

— Rumi

227. “If you can look in your mother’s eyes and she’s proud of you, then you’re a champion.”

— George Foreman

228. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

229. “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

230. “Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.”

— Stephen R. Covey

231. “Mother’s milk leads to everything.”

— George Carlin

232. “A mother’s love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You’ll miss her when she’s gone – Angela’s Ashes.”

— Frank McCourt

233. “I don’t want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that’s tragic. Because I don’t want her to get the chance to pick out what I’m going to wear for eternity.”

— Jon Stewart

234. “In our society, any man who doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral is liable to be condemned to death.”

— Albert Camus

235. “Sex always has consequences. When Hitler’s mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.”

— George Carlin

236. “If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

237. “So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

— John Milton

238. “If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.”

— John C. Maxwell

239. “When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, “This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking.””

— Isabel Allende

240. “In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.”

— Roald Dahl

241. “Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”

— Warsan Shire

242. “I think that indigenous women’s wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it’s imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.”

— Alice Walker

243. “Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.”

— Swami Vivekananda

244. “Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.”

— Giordano Bruno

245. “I’m loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.”

— Henry Cavill

246. “Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.”

— Mariah Carey

247. “The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.”

— Jack London

248. “It takes a Mother’s Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

249. “When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner.”

— Halle Berry

250. “But you can’t always tell – with somebody’s mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.”

— J.D. Salinger