Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Mother’s room, and mother’s need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people’s rights.”

— Doris Lessing

302. “The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.”

— Pope Francis

303. “If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter.”

— Anchee Min

304. “I just think some women aren’t made to be mothers. And some women aren’t made to be daughters.”

— Gillian Flynn

305. “A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.”

— James Agee

306. “Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.”

— Francis of Assisi

307. “She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.”

— George R.R. Martin

308. “I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don’t know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.”

— Isabel Allende

309. “Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.”

— D.L. Moody

310. “I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.”

— Clarence Darrow

311. “Gutenberg’s invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.”

— Victor Hugo

312. “I remember when I watched ‘Hellraiser’ with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.”

— Clive Barker

313. “To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.”

— Angelina Jolie

314. “The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.”

— Swami Vivekananda

315. “Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.”

— Maxim Gorky

316. “Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.”

— Chinua Achebe

317. “There’s a Mother’s Day and there’s a Father’s Day, but there’s no Children’s Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.”

— Michael Jackson

318. “Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. – Leo’s Mother, The Lost Hero.”

— Rick Riordan

319. “No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.”

— Wole Soyinka

320. “My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God’s plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.”

— Ronald Reagan

321. “OK, let’s get this mother out of here.”

— Gene Cernan

322. “The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.”

— John Calvin

323. “His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”

— Mae West

324. “Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.”

— William Butler Yeats

325. “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: ‘Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.’ That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.”

— Albert Camus

326. “My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.”

— Ben Carson

327. “My son really has the spirit of Valentine’s Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry.”

— Milton Berle

328. “Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed, The beloved disciple turned to stone, But where the silent Mother stood, there No one glanced and no one would have dared.”

— Anna Akhmatova

329. “My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.”

— Mother Teresa

330. “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

— Roald Dahl

331. “Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?”

— Socrates

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332. “Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She’s not a symbol.”

— Mahmoud Darwish

333. “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

— Pam Brown

334. “The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.”

— Thomas A. Edison

335. “If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

336. “Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”

— Khalil Gibran

337. “Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.”

— Thomas Aquinas

338. “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”

— Barack Obama

339. “Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.”

— Neil Gaiman

340. “Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.”

— Albert Camus

341. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”

— Coco Chanel

342. “They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.”

— George W. Bush

343. “Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.”

— Stephen R. Covey

344. “I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what’s comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.”

— Amy Tan

345. “In all of your living don’t forget to live.”

— Ricky Maye

346. “Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father’s fist would put her in her place.”

— Christina Aguilera

347. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

348. “You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

349. “It’s the bond between mother and child, which is really, for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.”

— Jane Goodall

350. “My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.”

— Lenny Bruce