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Great Mother Quotes

Jean M. Auel quote: "Great Mother! I can't believe it! Now I understand."(Mamut)"I..."
Great Mother! I can't believe it! Now I understand."(Mamut)"I do not understand," Ayla said Jean M. Auel
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. Dorothy L. Sayers
Tory Burch quote: "My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a..."
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman. Tory Burch
Olive Schreiner quote: "There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
There was never a great man who had not a great mother. Olive Schreiner
He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick. Suzanne Collins
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have..."
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. David Herbert Lawrence
Carrie Fisher quote: "Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're..."
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen. Carrie Fisher
Jessi Colter quote: "Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism."
Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism. Jessi Colter
The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are put into her mouth:'My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. for He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.' It is because of her child that she says this, He will magnify her ('For He that is mighty hath done to me great things'): He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For... Boris Pasternak
But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?' Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the... C. S. Lewis
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. Milan Kundera
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later. Boris Pasternak
My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too. Magic Johnson
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job."Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed. Jodi Picoult
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. James Ellroy

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