Mothers Quotes

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.  - Jill Bennett

Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn't everything. She was wrong about other things too.  - Gerald Barzan

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - Chinese Proverb

It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."  - Ann Landers

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.  - Natalia Ginzburg

Many people have said to me 'What a pity you had such a big family to raise. Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that.' And I looked at my children and I said, 'These are my poems. These are my short stories.' - Olga Masters

I stood in the hospital corridor the night after she was born. Through a window I could see all the small, crying newborn infants, and somewhere among them slept the one who was mine. I stood there for hours filled with happiness until the night nurse sent me to bed. - Liv Ullman

When a child enters the world through you it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.  - Jane Fonda

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and a desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.  - Elizabeth Gaskell

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.  - Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli