Top 500 Mother Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”

— Hermann Hesse

352. “He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him seemed impossible.”

— Leo Tolstoy

353. “Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.”

— Maria Montessori

354. “I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.”

— Michael Jackson

355. “To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

356. “My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!”

— Dante Alighieri

357. “My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

358. “When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”

— William Blake

359. “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.”

— Bette Davis

360. “If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man’s fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.”

— Anaïs Nin

361. “Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”

— Erma Bombeck

362. “Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.”

— George Clooney

363. “For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

364. “Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.”

— Quentin Crisp

365. “The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

366. “When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.”

— Lana Del Rey

367. “Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.”

— Toni Morrison

368. “No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap.”

— John Lennon

369. “No song or poem will bear my mother’s name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother’s stories.”

— Alice Walker

370. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.”

— Edith Wharton

371. “My mother never had time for me. When you’re the middle child in a family of five million, you don’t get any attention.”

— Woody Allen

372. “As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.”

— Zig Ziglar

373. “Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I’m writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”

— Anne Rice

374. “When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

— Marianne Williamson

375. “One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.”

— Tony Danza

376. “My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

377. “For me, my mother is everything.”

— Mario Balotelli

378. “When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

379. “You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

380. “And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away, in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

381. “A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.”

— Jane Austen

382. “Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.”

— Ian Botham

383. “Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”

— George Chapman

384. “I definitely want to buy my mom a house once I get enough funds. I think that’s definitely something that I want to do. I think that any person, it’s their dream to buy their mother a house.”

— Justin Bieber

385. “The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don’t like your world, it doesn’t work to say, “Well, it’s my mother’s fault. She taught me how to think.””

— Byron Katie

386. “My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn’t a social construct but an instinct.”

— Jodi Picoult

387. “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.”

— Marguerite Duras

388. “My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

— Sylvia Plath

389. “On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother’s case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.”

— Amy Tan

390. “He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.”

— Khalil Gibran

391. “This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

392. “For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

— Virginia Woolf

393. “I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”

— Jane Austen

394. “The so-called mother of the child isn’t the child’s begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster’s a stranger’s sprout.”

— Aeschylus

395. “My mother is a walking miracle.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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396. “I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.”

— Steve Harvey

397. “Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.”

— C. S. Lewis

398. “Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.”

— Pope John Paul II

399. “Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.”

— H. G. Wells

400. “Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”

— W.H. Auden