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
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