Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother – after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it’s a virtue to honor your parents, it’s a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.”

— William J. Bennett

252. “The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

253. “Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.”

— Ben Carson

254. “The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.”

— H. G. Wells

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255. “I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.”

— Nicole Kidman

256. “If Annabeth’s mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn’t Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?”

— Rick Riordan

257. “God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.”

— Thomas S. Monson

258. “A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

— Oscar Wilde

259. “A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.”

— Washington Irving

260. “I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother.”

— Fred Rogers

261. “I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

262. “Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.”

— Andrew Carnegie

263. “And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”

— Mother Teresa

264. “I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.”

— Swami Vivekananda

265. “Mother, you had me, but I never had you.”

— John Lennon

266. “From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.”

— Ronald Reagan

267. “One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother’s grave.”

— William Wordsworth

268. “All I am, I owe to my mother.”

— George Washington

269. “Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.”

— John Henrik Clarke

270. “The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood – that marvellous, unselfish, all – suffering, ever – forgiving mother.”

— Swami Vivekananda

271. “My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.”

— Steve Harvey

272. “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.”

— Agatha Christie

273. “Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.”

— Stephen Crane

274. “When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I’m gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark...”

— Rodney Dangerfield

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275. “We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.”

— Robin S. Sharma

276. “I feel betrayed by own mother.”

— Aaron Carter

277. “The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

278. “Since my mother is the type that’s called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she’s the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.”

— Abraham Maslow

279. “Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”

— William Wordsworth

280. “I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.”

— Tupac Shakur

281. “A man’s mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.”

— Walter Bagehot

282. “My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”

— Quentin Crisp

283. “There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’”

— Abraham Lincoln

284. “I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don’t make any opening for some fool to step into.”

— Malcolm X

285. “Struggling in my father’s hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother’s breast.”

— William Blake

286. “The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.”

— Bob Dylan

287. “Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

288. “Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

— C.G. Jung

289. “I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.”

— Winston Churchill

290. “My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I’m really thankful to her.”

— Henry Cavill

291. “I can’t wait to be able to drive, but it’s hard. Good driving doesn’t really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.”

— Emma Watson

292. “My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one.”

— Woody Allen

293. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”

— John Lennon

294. “My mother had a look on her face that I’ll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.”

— Amy Tan

295. “People always ask me: ‘When is the new Pele going to be born?’ Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.”

— Pelé

296. “If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice?”

— Bill Maher

297. “Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

298. “I cannot love thee; thou ’rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!”

— Emily Brontë

299. “Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues – faith and hope.”

— Charles Dickens

300. “You’re a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you’re not anymore.”

— Tariq Ramadan