Mother’s Day Quotes

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish proverb

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

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 troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving

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

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

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.
Jane Sellman

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

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.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty

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

My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said ‘Just wait’.
Judy Tenuta

The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her.
Author Unknown

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

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

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
Bob Dylan

If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine.
Rudyard Kipling

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.
Elizabeth Taylor

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
Harry Truman

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

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore M. Hesburgh

The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
Kahlil Gibran

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.
William Shakespeare
Sonnets

What the child says, he has heard at home.
African Proverb

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

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Arthur: ‘It’s at times like this I wish I’d listened to my mother.’
Ford : ‘Why, what did she say?’
Arthur: ‘I don’t know, I never listened.’
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

A mother’s heart is always with her children.
Proverb

The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother’s.
James Matthew Barrie

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Albert Einstein

The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.
Polish proverb

When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Picasso

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma Brombeck

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
Mae West

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother’s Day.
Sam Ewing

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou

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

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

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

A mother’s love’s a blessing, no matter where you roam
Keep her while she’s living, you’ll miss her when she’s gone
Love her as in childhood, though feeble, old and grey
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love, till she’s buried beneath the clay.
Thomas P. Keenan

 

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