Single Mother Quotes

• "If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam." - Lord Langdale
• "All mothers are working mothers." - Author Unknown
• ""A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children" - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children" - Andrea O'Reilly.
• "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
• "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish Proverb
• "To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations." - Anna Garlin Spencer
• "No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night." - Theodore Roosevelt
• "This heart, my own dear mother, bends, with loves true instinct, back to thee!" - Thomas Moore
• "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - Henry Ward Beecher
• "Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you." - Jill Bennett
• "It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge." - Phyllis Diller
• "Men are what their mothers made them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill." - John Erskine
• "Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that." - Golda Meir
• "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
• "Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill." - John Erskine
• "There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." - Chinese Proverb
• "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis