Mother’s Day Sayings

The common source of all the follies which degrade women, is the inexperience which they are condemned to acquire, till they are mothers of families.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I left my heart in San Francisco. My father left his in a sanitarium. My mother left hers in a shoe box in the attic.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I never had a mother, never had a father, never had a home, I never had a husband. I just had me.

I had to go to work to help my mother support the family. I was a child of the Reconstruction period.

Women’s most important duty is motherhood.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I believe my mother.

I am not a dictator. I am a mother, and I take care of my children.

Women should be mothers and wives, not career women. That's their natural role.

I'm not saying women can't be successful, I'm saying they're not designed for it. They're designed to be mothers and wives.

My mother still thinks I'm going through a phase.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

I am your queen, and I will be your mother.

I eat a lot of potatoes. My mother taught me that.

I don't like to be called 'Mutti' (Mommy).

Sons are a mother's pride and joy, but also her greatest sorrow.

I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother's milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away.