“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”
Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Quotes about mother page 5
“Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
“I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”
Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director
Source: Viola in Reel Life
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
“Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother….. Lovely Minato said”
Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist
“I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
“Necessity is the mother of all invention.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
“Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Daughter of the Blood
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (20 March 1791)
“Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: The Coffin Club
Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer
Source: The Goodbye Quilt
“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”
Source: Neighborhood Watch
“A good mother is irreplaceable.”
Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Variant: The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
Source: A Fine Balance
“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”
Variant: Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.
Source: For One More Day
“Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.”
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
Joanna Russ book The Female Man
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.”
Wes Anderson (1969) American filmmaker
Source: The Royal Tenenbaums
“Women are weak, but mothers are strong.”
Julie Otsuka book The Buddha in the Attic
Source: The Buddha in the Attic
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
“The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.”
Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey
Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey
“I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.”
Katie MacAlister (1964) Author
Source: Blow Me Down
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.”
Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) American novelist
“n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
The Minister's Wooing (1859) Ch. 21 The Bruised Flax-Flower
“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 9
“Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman