Mother’s Day Quotes

→ A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  –  Tenneva Jordan

→ If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. –  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


→ Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.
–  Jill Bennett


→ A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
–  Dorothy Canfield Fisher


→ At work, you think of the children you have left at home.
At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
–  Golda Meir


→ Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
–  Unknown


→ As is the mother, so is her daughter.
–  Ezekiel 16:4


→ Men are what their mothers made them.
–  Ralph Waldo Emerson


→ Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
–  Harriet Beecher Stowe


→ We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
–  Henry Ward Beecher


→ The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
–  Honore de Balzac, author


→ The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
–  Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman


→ Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
–  Nancy Thayer, author


→ By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
–  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author


→ Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
–  Lin Yutang, Chinese writer


→ Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
–  Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer

→ That best academy, a mother’s knee.
–  James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat


→ Making a decision to have a child- – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
–  Elizabeth Stone


→ Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.
–  Gregory Nunn


→ A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
–  Tenneva Jordan


→ Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
–  W. Somerset Maugham


→ The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
–  James Fenton


→ No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle- aged children for signs of improvement.
–  Florida Scott- Maxwell


→ Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
–  Betty Rollin


→ Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self- esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
–  Elaine Heffner


→ Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
–  James Joyce


→ All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
–  Germaine Greer


→ 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


→ All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
–  Oscar Wilde


→ 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


→ The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
–  Author Unknown


→ A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
–  Peter De Vries


→ All mothers are working mothers.
–  Author Unknown


→ 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


→ Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
–  Helen Hunt Jackson


→ It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
–  Barbara Kingsolver


→ God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
–  Jewish proverb


→ I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
–  Abraham Lincoln


→ Being a full- time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
–  Mildred B. Vermont


→ Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows- but Mother.
–  Anonymous


→ If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
–  Henry Bickersteth


→ Mother –  that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
–  T. DeWitt Talmage


→ There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
–  Chinese Proverb


→ 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, Women and Beauty


→ No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you –  life
–  Anonymous quotes


→ An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
–  Spanish Proverb


→ Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
–  Aristotle


→ If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
–  Lawrence Housman


→ Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
–  Sam Levenson


→ Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
–  William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949


→ And remember that behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry.
–  Unknown


→ Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
– George Cooper


→ Being a full- time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.  – Mildred B. Vermont


→ The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
– William Goldsmith Brown


→ If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  – Robert Brault


→ A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  – Peter De Vries


→ If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  – Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)


→ Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.  – Author Unknown


→ 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


→ All mothers are working mothers.  – Author Unknown


→ 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, Women and Beauty


→ Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  – Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul


→ Mother –  that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  – T. DeWitt Talmage


→ A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge


→ 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


→ God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.  – Jewish Proverb


→ A mother understands what a child does not say.  – Author Unknown


→ I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  – Abraham Lincoln


→ 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


→ 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


→ A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.  – Irish Proverb


→ Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.  – John Wilmot

→ You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry- go- round will wave at his parents every time around –  and why his parents will always wave back.  – William D. Tammeus


→ Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.  – Author Unknown


→ Now that… my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together.  The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations.  Thank you!  – Forest Houtenschil


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


→ Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
– Helen Hunt Jackson


→ A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.  – Author Unknown


→ Are we not like two volumes of one book?  – Marceline Desbordes- Valmore


→ It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.  – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


→ Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
– Ann Taylor


→ Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
– Ann Taylor


→ A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.  – Author Unknown


→ On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you.  In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines:  You’re my mother, I would have no other!  – Forest Houtenschil


→ Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.  – Author Unknown


→ Children are a great comfort in your old age –  and they help you reach it faster, too.  – Lionel Kauffman


→ Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.  – William Makepeace Thackeray


→ 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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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


→ This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love’s true instinct, back to thee!
– Thomas Moore


→ Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.  – Sam Levenson


→ The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.  – John J. Plomp


→ Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.  – Harriet Beecher Stowe


→ Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother’s kiss –  sweeter this
Than any other thing!
– William Allingham


→ I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.  – Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, M*A*S*H, “Identity Crisis,”


→ Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  – Dinah Craik


→ Where we love is home –  home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.  – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


→ In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  – Albert Schweitzer


→ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  – Marcel Proust


→ If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  – Attributed to Claudia Ghandi


→ A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  – Author Unknown


→ Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  – Ambrose Bierce


→ All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That’s his.  – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895


→ Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  – Aristotle


→ A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.  – Author Unknown


→ Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  – Elizabeth Stone


→ Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.  – Haim Ginott


→ Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.  – Marilyn Penland


→ Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.  – Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family


→ There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  – Chinese Proverb


→ Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  – Red Buttons


→ If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.  – Lawrence Housman


→ Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.  – William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949