Quotes about Mothers
These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.
- Joseph Campbell
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
- John Calvin
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
- Charles Dickens
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
- Rose Schneiderman
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
- Herman Melville
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.
- Gloria Steinem
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.
- Donald Trump