75 INSPIRING MOTHER'S DAY QUOTES

 

Mother's Day is just a couple of days away. Here are 75 inspiring quotes that you'd like to share with friends and family members - especially that special person: Mother!

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them || Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

All mothers are working mothers || Unknown

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

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

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 regard no man as poor who has a godly mother || Abraham Lincoln

…the hand that rocks the cradle – Is the hand that rules the world || William Ross Wallace

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest || Spanish Proverb

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after || Peter de Vries

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest ||  Irish Proverb

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

To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language || Arlene Benedict

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

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

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

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

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

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him || Helen Rowland

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found || Calvin Trillin

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 ||  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.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother || 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 || 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

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