61 Quotes About Mothers and Fathers

June 09, 2022

Parents love; others talk of love. ~ Charlotte Mary Yonge

Close your eyes and think of the people who have made the greatest contributions to your life. Who has shaped you into the person you are today?

Are you thinking of your mother, father, aunt, uncle, neighbor, foster parent, teacher, or grandparent?

Whoever holds that special place in your heart, today’s post is dedicated to them.

This is for all the people who have raised you, cared for you, loved you.

Parenthood requires love, not DNA. Celebrate that special someone in your life.

Quotes About Parents

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ~ Toni Morrison

And my mother again would say to me, “You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.” And these words plagued and bothered me; I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. ~ Lupita Nyong’o

Parents love; others talk of love. ~ Charlotte Mary Yonge

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

“My mother,” is an expression of music and melody. ~ Clair Josèphe Hippolyte Leris (aka Mademoiselle Clairon)

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle

The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant. ~ attributed to Erma Bombeck

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. ~ Maya Angelou

A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s. ~ Princess Diana

Even though I’m proud my dad invented the rear-view mirror, we’re not as close as we appear. ~ Stewart Francis

Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~ T. Dewitt Talmage

Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children. ~ Maxim Gorky

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster. ~ Sara Josepha Hale

A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish Proverb

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother. ~ Anonymous

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~ Oprah Winfrey

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. ~ Elaine Heffner

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you never knew existed. ~ Linda Wooten

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne. ~ Mabel Hale

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend. ~ Anonymous

Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it. ~ Anonymous

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it. ~ Bea Arthur (as Dorothy, The Golden Girls)

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo

Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are. ~ Cheryl Lacey Donovan

If you would take a peep at Sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. ~ Sara Payson Willis Parton (aka Fanny Fern)

Happy is the man who reverences all women because he first learned to worship his mother. ~ Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (aka Jean Paul)

Cherish every sentiment of respect for your mother; she merits your warmest gratitude, esteem, and veneration. ~ James Gates Percival

No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother’s love. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. ~ Washington Irving

Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. ~ Anonymous

A father is someone who carries pictures where money used to be. ~ Anonymous

Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then. It’s a love without end, Amen. ~ Aaron Barker (songwriter) & George Strait (singer)

The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched. ~ attributed to Justin Ricklefs

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. ~ Sigmund Freud

A father’s job isn’t to teach his daughter how to be a lady. It’s to teach her how a lady should be treated. ~ Anonymous

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. ~ Austin O’Malley

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. ~ Samuel Johnson

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. ~ George V

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough. ~ Wilhelm Busch

Me and my dad used to play tag. He’d drive. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo. ~ Bob Monkhouse

There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.’ ~ Jim Gaffigan

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. ~ Jon Stewart

As each day passes, you grow older, weaker. I’ve been working out. Revenge is near. Happy Father’s Day. ~ Dan Cummins

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch. ~ Chelsea Clinton

Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first. ~ Matthew Jacobson

A mother’s tenderness and a father’s care are nature’s gifts for man’s advantage. ~ Lindley Murray

In some sense every parent does love their children...But some parents are too broken to love them well and others are barely able to love them at all... ~ William Paul Young (The Shack)

Unhappy parents have unhappy children. ~ Jean Aude

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. ~ James E. Faust

The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. ~ James E. Faust

Honor the father who gave you life, the mother who has cherished you in her bosom. ~ Hugues Félicité Robert de Lamennais

My heroes were my parents, I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes. ~ Michael Jordan

Don’t anger your parents in order to please other people. Those other people did not spend their lives building yours. ~ Anonymous

Parenthood...It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. ~ Peter Krause

What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. ~ Nicholas Sparks