Quotes about Mother
Mom had promised to stay clean as long as I was a good enough son to make it worth her while.
— Barbara Kingsolver
His mother had let him carry two valises: one for books, one for clothes. The clothes were a waste, outgrown instantly. He should have filled both with books.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Humility is the mother of all virtues.
— Stephen Covey
My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.
— Euripides
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and also cuddles... but because in an interesting and and maybe an eerie and other worldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known.
— Maya Angelou
I could never put my finger on her realness. She was so pretty and so quick that even when she had just awakened, her eyes full of sleep and hair tousled, I thought she looked just like the Virgin Mary. But what mother and daughter understand each other, or even have the sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?
— Maya Angelou
Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking." She turned out the light and I patted my son's body lightly and went back to sleep.
— Maya Angelou
I am Lady, and still your mother.ยจ
— Maya Angelou
My mother wrote to me and said, "Airplanes leave here every day for Africa. If you need me, I will come." Her love and support encouraged me to dare to live my life with pizzazz.
— Maya Angelou
Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." LUKE 2:19
— Beth Moore