Browsing Topic Best Great Mother Quotes

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

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.

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We’re comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we’re comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there’s no in-between.

A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn’t kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems – you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself – and you just began doing what’s necessary to solve your problems yourself.

The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature’s bare blade without shedding our own blood.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

I definitely don’t want to have kids … I don’t think I’d be a great mother. I’m a great aunt or friend of a mother … I don’t want to spend that kind of time. I don’t want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don’t have time to raise a child.

Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

I did not know there was any controversy. I don’t get a lot of time to read the fan forums, etc. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to have more storylines. I was just so happy to step in and pick up some of the slack for Emily while she was pregnant. It was so important for Emily to concentrate on her health and the well-being of her baby. In the end … she is a great mother and her baby is adorable. I did not realize there was any controversy. LOL!

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I had a great mother, and I’m very comfortable with that maternal element.

When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature’s gift to us of gayness, we’ll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to….transform their pain into healings; …transform their tears to laughter: …transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

A mother’s love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It’s already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you’re playing a mother.

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it – the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there’s the other camp, where Judy is the one.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I’m at work.

Me, personally, I’m just happy. I have a great mother. I have two great sisters. I couldn’t ask for more. I’m healthy. I do what I love.

Richer than I you can never be,I had a mother who read to me.