The Top 15 Memorable Quotes About Mothers

Celebrate motherhood with our collection of 15 memorable quotes about mothers.

Mothers in literature have always been complex and compelling characters. In this post, I’ve shared 15 of my favourite quotes about mothers.

The Top 15 Memorable Quotes About Mothers

1. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.  ~Agatha Christie
2. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met. ~Marguerite Duras
3. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~Mark Twain
4. Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. ~George Eliot
5. Mothers are all slightly insane. ~J.D. Salinger
6. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ~Martha Gellhorn
7. But mothers lie. It’s in the job description. ~John Green
8. If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. –Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
9. When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark. ~John Irving
10. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ~Barbara Kingsolver
11. Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children. ~Maxim Gorky
12. No one is more sentimentalised in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behaviour. ~Anne Lamott
13. The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones.  ~Mignon McLaughlin
14. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I’m kidding. I’m not. ~Ayelet Waldman
15. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert

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by Amanda Patterson

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