Quotes about Mother
Salcombe Hardy groaned: How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.
- Dorothy Sayers
I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.
- Diane von Furstenberg
What does it all mean if I don't have family? If my mother is in the cold, hard ground?
- Rachel Hauck
But a girl should never get over needing her mother.
- Rachel Hauck
My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.
- Drew Barrymore
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
- George Eliot
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
- Robert Brault
I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard.
- Tim Tebow
I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus
- Mother Teresa
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
- Vance Havner
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
- St. John Chrysostom
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
- St. Anthony of Padua