Special Quotes for Mother's Day
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers ~ Jewish Proverb
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to making leaning unnecessary ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ~ Lin Yutang
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
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 (1732-1799)
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it~ Mark Twain
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, from Women and Beauty
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done ~ Unknown
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician ~ Sidney J. Harris
Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children ~ Maxim Gorky
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness ~ Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~ W.R. Wallace
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~ Mark Twain
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life ~ Sophocles
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it ~ Buddy Hackett
To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. ~ Arlene Benedict
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters ~ George Herbert
A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs...since the payment is pure love –Mildred B.Vermont
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
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!- Thomas Moore
A Mother's Love: Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly - Sarah Malin
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 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 (1783-1859)
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible-- Marion C. Garretty
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way - Andrew Jackson, U.S. President
There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps - Archibald Thompson
A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~ Irish Proverb
Special Quotes for Mother's Day
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers ~ Jewish Proverb
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to making leaning unnecessary ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ~ Lin Yutang
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
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 (1732-1799)
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it~ Mark Twain
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, from Women and Beauty
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done ~ Unknown
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician ~ Sidney J. Harris
Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children ~ Maxim Gorky
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness ~ Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~ W.R. Wallace
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~ Mark Twain
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life ~ Sophocles
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it ~ Buddy Hackett
To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. ~ Arlene Benedict
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters ~ George Herbert
A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs...since the payment is pure love –Mildred B.Vermont
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
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!- Thomas Moore
A Mother's Love: Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly - Sarah Malin
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 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 (1783-1859)
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible-- Marion C. Garretty
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way - Andrew Jackson, U.S. President
There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps - Archibald Thompson
A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~ Irish Proverb
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