Mom Quotes & Proverbs

  • “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one” - Jill Churchill
  • “Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.” - Bern Williams
  • “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” - Jane Sellman
  • “And yet of all the home remedies, a good wife and mother is still the best.” – Kin Hubbard
  • “Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.” – Maxim Gorky
  • “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” - Albert Einstein
  • “To understand a mother’s love, bear your own children.” - Chinese Proverb
  • “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
  • “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” – Erma Bombeck
  • “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” - Tenneva Jordan
  • “Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.” - Marcelene Cox
  • “God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” – Jewish Proverb
  • “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” - Phyllis Diller
  • “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren
  • “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” - Milton Berle
  • “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” – The Golden Girls
  • “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” - Theodore Hesburgh
  • “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.” – Lisa Alther
  • “Raising a kid is part joy and part guerilla warfare.”Ed Asner
  • “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”- Maya Angelou
  • “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy” – Spanish Proverb
  • “Children are a great comfort in your old age. And they help you reach it faster, too.” - Lionel Kaufman
  • “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • “I really learned it all from mothers.” - Dr. Benjamin Spock
  • “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” - Lin Yutang
  • “Making the decision to have a child – It’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”- Elizabeth Stone
  • “Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.” - Nancy Stahl
  • “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” - Irish Proverb
  • “She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”- Margaret Culkin Banning
  • “Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.” – Kate Samperi
  • “The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent” - Spanish Proverb
  • “Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.” – Beverly Jones
  • “When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.” – Nancy Friday
  • “Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.” – Author Unknown
  • “The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.” – Anna Quindlen
  • “My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.” - Nora Ephron