Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men. Votes: 3
Robert BrowningMothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. Votes: 3
Janice DickinsonMothers are the ultimate executives. Instead of raising profits they are raising humanity. Votes: 3
Virginia BurgesBiology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's Votes: 3
Kevin HeathMothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. Votes: 3
Robert BlochMothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. Votes: 3
Maurice SendakFathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. Votes: 3
Chuck PalahniukMothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. Votes: 3
Letty Cottin PogrebinMothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth. Votes: 3
Margaret DillowayI really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands Votes: 3
Milton BerleMothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs. Votes: 3
Yotam OttolenghiMost fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. Votes: 3
Bill CosbyThe Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. Votes: 3
Floyd Red Crow WestermanDon't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers Votes: 3
Edwin ArnoldBut you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. Votes: 3
J. D. SalingerMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Votes: 3
AristotleMothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world. Votes: 3
Benjamin RushI always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it. Votes: 3
Lauren BacallMothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins. Votes: 3
Pam BrownI think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road. Votes: 3
Jimmy Carl BlackMothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. Votes: 2
Victor HugoMen who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. Votes: 2
Ellen BarkinHating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. Votes: 2
Mike RoykoI grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. Votes: 2
Erykah BaduInterfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints. Votes: 0
Emily YoffeLike mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten Votes: 0
George Bramwell, 1st Baron BramwellSingle mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before. Votes: 0
Gayle Tzemach LemmonArgh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud. Votes: 0
Eoin ColferFrance needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThere was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. Votes: 0
Sarah Addison AllenOne thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. Votes: 0
Lawrence WelkChildren and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts. Votes: 0
Charlotte GrayGood mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children. Votes: 0
Cissy HoustonI have proposed maternity leave for mothers whose employers do not provide it. Votes: 0
Donald TrumpEnglishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingMaybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultHindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers. Votes: 0
Marianne MooreMorality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently. Votes: 0
Jose BergaminToday, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. Votes: 0
Jane D. HullKeep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers. Votes: 0
Jean Marzollo...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. Votes: 0
Victor HugoAll mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages. Votes: 0
Robertson DaviesWe mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. Votes: 0
Letty Cottin PogrebinFathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThere are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between. Votes: 0
Jane GoodallThere are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children. Votes: 0
Bernardine DohrnThough mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. Votes: 0
Ihara SaikakuWhat do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? Votes: 0
Louisa May Alcottâ¦she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. Votes: 0
Louisa May AlcottAnd mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out! Votes: 0
Joseph DelaneyWe all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us. Votes: 0
Annie LennoxIf mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any God-damned wars in the first place! Votes: 0
Sally FieldThe unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. Votes: 0
Andrew YoungAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeA lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. Votes: 0
BanksyIt is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny. Votes: 0
Luther Standing BearFirst ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers ... Votes: 0
Rosalynn CarterI have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. Votes: 0
Beyonce KnowlesAdults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanThe time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. Votes: 0
Arthur C. ClarkeArt is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering. Votes: 0
Gayle Tzemach LemmonIf you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. Votes: 0
Charles SimmonsMaids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being. Votes: 0
Fanny KembleI come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers. Votes: 0
Erykah BaduI know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have. Votes: 0
Ann RomneyThey say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them Votes: 0
Robin WilliamsMaybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. Votes: 0
Lisa SeeI was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. Votes: 0
Daniel WoodrellMilitant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets. Votes: 0
Alice CooperMy mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there. Votes: 0
Wes MooreOur mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. Votes: 0
Viktor YushchenkoThe Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. Votes: 0
Elayne BooslerThe purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. Votes: 0
Joan BladesThe purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. Votes: 0
Joan BladesThere's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told. Votes: 0
Merle HaggardBut, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. Votes: 0
June JordanHe is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers. Votes: 0
Harry Emerson FosdickThe best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaOnly mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. Votes: 0
Maxim GorkyIf fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three. Votes: 0
Laurence HousmanGod promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church... Votes: 0
John CalvinHow we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. Votes: 0
Adrienne RichBe not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerI have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltWe are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born. Votes: 0
Meister EckhartI get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need. Votes: 0
Robin LimI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterA mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeI wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for. Votes: 0
Adam SandlerWhy did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? Votes: 0
Anita DiamentI hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age. Votes: 0
Ellen MuthWe take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us. Votes: 0
Vera FarmigaOur mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. Votes: 0
Ezra Taft BensonGirls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. Votes: 0
Miriam MakebaThe kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauAll mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. Votes: 0
Boris PasternakIt was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans. Votes: 0
Ann BrasharesI just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters. Votes: 0
Gillian FlynnI am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. Votes: 0
Walter ScottBadly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives. Votes: 0
Edward BellamyAll that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part... Votes: 0
Charlotte GrayI don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models. Votes: 0
Lily AllenBut before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. Votes: 0
Adrienne RichA lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading. Votes: 0
Kathryn HarrisonI'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them. Votes: 0
Claudia SchifferI did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds. Votes: 0
EminemBut I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did. Votes: 0
Kiera CassI agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted. Votes: 0
Sandra Tsing LohGod forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against. Votes: 0
Brendan BehanI get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. Votes: 0
Shaun WhiteHarry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death. Votes: 0
Aimee CarterI hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.' Votes: 0
Dilma RousseffWe should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air. Votes: 0
Philip K. DickObviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum. Votes: 0
Geri HalliwellHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. Votes: 0
Alice WalkerHow can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one? Votes: 0
Rachel CuskI think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! Votes: 4 Arianna Huffington
My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. Votes: 2 J. J. Abrams
I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved. Votes: 1 Sufe Bradshaw
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Votes: 1 Mother Teresa
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. Votes: 1 Cheryl Strayed
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. Votes: 1 Temple Grandin
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Taylor
Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers. Votes: 4 Cara Buono
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. Votes: 3 Sarah Addison Allen
Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers. Votes: 2 Nina Easton
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. Votes: 3 Ella Baker
My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant. Votes: 2 Emma Bonino
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation. Votes: 1 Jeff Bridges
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her. Votes: 1 Rosemary Mahoney
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground. Votes: 1 Dominic West
So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes. Votes: 3 Judd Apatow
Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed. Votes: 1 Meghan Daum
I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time. Votes: 2 Nate Berkus
Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day. Votes: 3 Doug Stanhope
I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother. Votes: 2 Rosie O'Donnell
My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me. Votes: 1 Carrie Ann Inaba
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Votes: 2 Theodore Hesburgh
I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens. Votes: 1 Ann Romney
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Votes: 1 Dan Quayle
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me. Votes: 2 Dustin Clare
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home. Votes: 1 LeBron James
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. Votes: 1 Jaron Lanier
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. Votes: 1 Carol P. Christ
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. Votes: 3 Ella Reeve Bloor
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. Votes: 2 Gretchen Wilson
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. Votes: 1 Mike Royko
My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son. Votes: 2 Adriano Giannini
The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way. Votes: 1 Alexis Wright
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. Votes: 4 Anne Lamott
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure. Votes: 1 Anne Lamott
My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a child. She would have me knead the dough when I got home from school. Votes: 1 Richard Flanagan
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day. Votes: 1 Tyler Perry
What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother. Votes: 2 Liya Kebede
Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me. Votes: 1 Randeep Hooda
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. Votes: 1 Henry Ward Beecher
It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. Votes: 1 Koren Zailckas
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky. Votes: 2 Courtney Love
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. Votes: 1 James Levine
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! Votes: 2 Mother Jones
We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date. Votes: 1 Beyonce Knowles
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Votes: 1 Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Votes: 1 Mother Teresa
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. Votes: 1 Cheryl Strayed
I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them. Votes: 1 Gina Prince-Bythewood
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years. Votes: 0 Ariel Gore
The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer. Votes: 4 Alexa Von Tobel
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. Votes: 1 E. W. Howe
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish. Votes: 1 Cate Blanchett
Certainly, being a 'perfect' mother is unachievable. Votes: 4 Sandra Tsing Loh
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life? Votes: 2 Frank Pittman
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Votes: 2 Mother Jones
Probably hundreds of thousands of saved pregnant mothers are going to be going up in the Rapture, and you know good and well they are going to have their babies either in Heaven or when they get back to Earth in the Millennium! Votes: 3 David Berg
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one. Votes: 3 Jodi Picoult
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. Votes: 1 Margaret Turnbull
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. Votes: 1 Sally Field
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. Votes: 1 Tina Turner
My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible. Votes: 2 Mark Ronson
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Votes: 1 Hubert H. Humphrey
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Votes: 2 Mother Teresa
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. Votes: 1 Mike Royko
Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me. Votes: 1 Randeep Hooda
Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings. Votes: 4 William Ruckelshaus