These mum quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mum quotes, mum sayings, and mum proverbs.
Best Mum Quotes
- “I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?” ~ William Cowper
- “Most mothers kiss and scold together.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
- “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” ~ Erich Fromm
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“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” ~ Margaret Culkin Banning
- “Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.” ~ Pearl S. Buck , Love mum quotes
- “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~ Washington Irving
- “Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson
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“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” ~ Ambrose Bierc
- “The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ~ Sophia Loren
- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.” ~ Washington Irving
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “That best academy, a mother’s knee.” ~ James Russell Lowell
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“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” ~ Peter De Vries
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“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ~ Sophia Loren
- “Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” ~ Lisa Alther
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“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that supposed to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.” ~ Isadora Duncan
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“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.” ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
- “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~ Aristotle
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“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” ~ Meryl Streep
- “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” ~ Mark Twain
- “No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” ~ Rajneesh
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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~ Milton Berle
- “I love being a mum, but it’s much more intensive work than being an actress – going to work feels like you’ve got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it’s just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don’t work. But they work more than anyone.” ~ Natalie Portman
- “All I’m saying is that sooner of later, you’ll have to come to terms with yourself. You can’t wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn’t keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don’t apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone.” ~ Jeaniene Frost
- “I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad – they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things – that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.” ~ Harry Treadaway
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“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “It’s hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto ‘You made your bed, you lie in it’ and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.” ~ Lisa Maffia
- “I know exactly where I’ve come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.” ~ Christopher Eccleston
- “My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.” ~ Alan Cumming
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“Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.” ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
- “Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.” ~ Tony Abbott
- “So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family – Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma – because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.” ~ Joely Richardson
- “I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.” ~ Jennifer Aniston
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“My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.” ~ Marc Anthony
- “You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’” ~ Louis Tomlinson , Mum quotes daughter
- “My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.” ~ Kevin Hart
- “My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.” ~ Shane Filan
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“My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I’ve got that from her, I know she’s a fighter.” ~ Naomi Campbell
- “My mum had a cousin that had played when he was younger. When I showed an interest in drumming, he showed me how to mummy-daddy roll and that set me up for a bit. And to be honest, it’s all about the sound, the noise, the rattle and hum. Who wouldn’t want to make a fantastic noise with drums and cymbals?!” ~ Al Murray
- “My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher’s mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.” ~ Danny Boyle
- “I asked my mum, who’s a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.” ~ Roald Dahl
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“My mum taught me to have a soul.” ~ Stella McCartney
- “I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I’m driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we’re leading these four children into unknown waters.” ~ Stella McCartney
- “I’ve got over so much. Mum wouldn’t want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again” ~ Tracey Emin
- “Are there any military actions that the president of the United States may not order on his own authority? If so, what are they? Bit by bit, decade by decade, Congress has abdicated its assigned role in authorizing war. Today, it merely rubberstamps what presidents decide to do (or simply stays mum). Who does this deference to an imperial presidency benefit? Have U.S. policies thereby become more prudent, enlightened, and successful?” ~ Andrew Bacevich
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“Mum’s a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself – I think it runs in the family.” ~ Gail Porter
- “Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die and then some. Mom, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you’re not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mom.” ~ Christopher Titus
- “Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear the day their parents kill. My mum killed a guy, at my wedding. So I can pretty much check that off. But, she’s my mum. And no matter what she did I just can’t walk away from her. She gave me birth. She gave me love. She gave me the ability to make a cigarette fire look like it was started by the hot water heater.” ~ Christopher Titus
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“My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.” ~ Gail Porter
- “My mum is in a mental hospital. There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.” ~ Christopher Titus
- “I want to build a course my mum can enjoy.” ~ Davis Love III
