Mothers Day Quotes

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 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.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

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.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

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.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

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