Best Mom Quotes

31. What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

^{Rose Kennedy}

32. There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

^{Benjamin Spock}

33. I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody’s help, not even Mom’s.

^{Kate Hudson}

34. You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

^{Ethel Waters}

35. I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

^{Celine Dion}

36. I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

^{Carol Burnett}

37. I’m so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

^{Candace Cameron Bure}

38. My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

^{Toby Keith}

39. The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

^{Jean Kerr}

40. Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

^{Arnold Bennett}

41. I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

^{Candice Bergen}

42. 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}

43. Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.

^{Mike Krzyzewski}

44. Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

^{Ann Oakley}

45. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

^{Carly Fiorina}

46. My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

^{Andy Partridge}

47. When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

^{Margaret Sanger}

48. The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

^{Honore de Balzac}

49. What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

^{Al Lewis}

50. When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.

^{Dick Gregory}

51. I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

^{Jane Elliot}

52. I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‘Maria’ from West Side Story. When I hear hersnoring, I hang up.

^{Adam Sandler}

53. My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

^{Milo Ventimiglia}

54. My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin’ her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting’ to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

^{Buck Owens}

55. Mothers are the necessity of invention.

^{Bill Watterson}

56. Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

^{Jessica Simpson}

57. A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

^{Emma Bonino}

58. A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

^{Jane Fonda}

59. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

60. How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

^{Alice Walker}

61. My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.

^{Ben Affleck}

62. My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That’s how we were raised.

^{Robin Wright}

63. What is free time? I’m a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

^{Roma Downey}

64. Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

^{Maurice Sendak}

65. Being a mother is hard and it wasn’t a subject I ever studied.

^{Ruby Wax}

66. I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son.

^{Charlize Theron}

67. The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t have that rule when Jesus was born.

^{Elayne Boosler}

68. I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

^{Arianna Huffington}

69. I am truly my mother’s son.

^{David Geffen}

70. It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

^{Honore de Balzac}

71. What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?

^{Louisa May Alcott}

72. If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.

^{Larisa Oleynik}

73. I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

^{David Rockefeller}

74. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

^{Barbara Ehrenreich}

75. Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

^{Erma Bombeck}

76. Everyone checks out my mom. My mom’s hot.

^{Ashley Scott}

77. I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

^{Sandra Bullock}

78. The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

^{Dorothy Fields}

79. Mommy smoked but she didn’t want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

^{Loretta Lynn}

80. Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

^{Helen Hunt Jackson}

81. Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

^{Cynthia Nixon}

82. I’m a Mommy’s Girl – the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

^{Susie Bright}

83. Of all the roles I’ve played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

^{Annette Funicello}