A Collection of carefully selected Mother Quotes and Quotations by Famous People.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
by Maya Angelou
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
by Robert Frost
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
by William Butler Yeats
Fear is the mother of foresight.
by Thomas Hardy
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
by Robert Browning
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
by Mark Twain
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
by Philip Levine
My mother worked full-time so I was largely ungoverned, free to roam the streets of Detroit from an early age and research the poems to come, a tiny Walt Whitman going among powerful, uneducated people.
by Philip Levine
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
by Marilyn Hacker
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
by Helen Hunt Jackson
