Quotes about Good Mother

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. Votes: 4

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. Votes: 4

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals. Votes: 4

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did. Votes: 4

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve. Votes: 4

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. Votes: 4

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business. Votes: 4

Our stories are what we have," Our Good Mother says. "Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand? Votes: 3

Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium. Votes: 3

A good mother is irreplaceable. Votes: 2

I'm not a good mother at all. Votes: 2

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. Votes: 2

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. Votes: 2

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. Votes: 2

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. Votes: 2

I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person. Votes: 2

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person. Votes: 2

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother. Votes: 2

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. Votes: 2

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos Votes: 2

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Votes: 2

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon. Votes: 2

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. Votes: 2

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother. Votes: 2

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. Votes: 2

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do. Votes: 2

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler. Votes: 2

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me. Votes: 2

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children. Votes: 2

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. Votes: 2

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping. Votes: 2

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him. Votes: 2

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Votes: 2

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed. Votes: 2

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children. Votes: 2

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really. Votes: 2

My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife. Votes: 2

What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other. Votes: 2

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. Votes: 2

There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else. Votes: 2

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish. Votes: 2

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. Votes: 2

I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion. Votes: 2

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie. Votes: 2

Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period. Votes: 2

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Votes: 0

Diligence is the mother of good luck. Votes: 0

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist. Votes: 0

Diligence is the mother of good fortune Votes: 0

I loved my mother, she's a good girl. Votes: 0

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person. Votes: 0

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives. Votes: 0

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. Votes: 0

I was good at keeping my mother from crying. Votes: 0

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy. Votes: 0

I think I was raised by a really good mother. Votes: 0

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it. Votes: 0

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew. Votes: 0

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother. Votes: 0

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. Votes: 0

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say. Votes: 0

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me. Votes: 0

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller. Votes: 0

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother. Votes: 0

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. Votes: 0

Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments. Votes: 0

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother. Votes: 0

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too. Votes: 0

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother. Votes: 0

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. Votes: 0

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother. Votes: 0

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child. Votes: 0

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. Votes: 0

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. Votes: 0

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. Votes: 0

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice. Votes: 0

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. Votes: 0

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good. Votes: 0

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death. Votes: 0

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. Votes: 0

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Votes: 0

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud. Votes: 0

Cybill Shepherd's mother - her name is Patty - is a good friend of mine. Votes: 0

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother. Votes: 0

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. Votes: 0

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns. Votes: 0

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. Votes: 0

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends. Votes: 0

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. Votes: 0

Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul. Votes: 0

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. Votes: 0

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. Votes: 0

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber. Votes: 0

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party. Votes: 0

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. Votes: 0

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea. Votes: 0

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter. Votes: 0

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out. Votes: 0

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once. Votes: 0

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. Votes: 0

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero Votes: 0

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. Votes: 0

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook. Votes: 0

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. Votes: 0

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person. Votes: 0

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother. Votes: 0

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. Votes: 0

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. Votes: 0

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. Votes: 0

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Votes: 0

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer. Votes: 0

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. Votes: 0

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. Votes: 0

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me! Votes: 0

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. Votes: 0

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. Votes: 0

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon. Votes: 0

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother. Votes: 0

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice. Votes: 0

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!! Votes: 0

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil. Votes: 0

A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive. Votes: 0

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral. Votes: 0

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. Votes: 0

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. Votes: 0

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John. Votes: 0

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions. Votes: 0

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation." Votes: 0

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. Votes: 0

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him. Votes: 0

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features. Votes: 0

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. Votes: 0

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. Votes: 0

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. Votes: 0

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews. Votes: 0

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Votes: 0

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. Votes: 0

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. Votes: 0

I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.' Votes: 0

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating. Votes: 0

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Votes: 0

If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal. Votes: 0

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother. Votes: 0

My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills. Votes: 0

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. Votes: 0

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law. Votes: 0

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse. Votes: 0

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law. Votes: 0

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. Votes: 0

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work. Votes: 0

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing. Votes: 0

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. Votes: 0

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks? Votes: 0

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. Votes: 0

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private. Votes: 0

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Votes: 0

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. Votes: 0

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’. Votes: 0

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. Votes: 0

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. Votes: 0

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole. Votes: 0

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time. Votes: 0

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say... Votes: 0

Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see. Votes: 0

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother. Votes: 0

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. Votes: 0

Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother. Votes: 0

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship. Votes: 0

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me. Votes: 0

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception. Votes: 0

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence. Votes: 0

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother. Votes: 0

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington. Votes: 0

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice. Votes: 0

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance. Votes: 0

You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality. Votes: 0

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. Votes: 0

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? Votes: 0

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. Votes: 0

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery. Votes: 0

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. Votes: 0

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?' Votes: 0

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. Votes: 0

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. Votes: 0

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. Votes: 0

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day." Votes: 0

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Votes: 0

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character. Votes: 0

In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth. Votes: 0

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals." Votes: 0

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. Votes: 0

I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband. Votes: 0

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa Votes: 0