Mothers Day Quotes for 2014

Mother's Day Quotes That Sum Up How Awesome Our Mums Are

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

: William Makepiece Thackaray
 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

"The best place to cry is on a mother's arms."

: Jodi Picoult 

 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

"A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

: Emily Dickinson

"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

 "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars"

:  E.M. Forster

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

: Victor Hugo

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."

: James Joyce

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

: Marion C. Garretty

"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

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

:  Agatha Christie

"The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother's."

: James Matthew Barrie

"A good mother is irreplaceable."

: Adriana Trigiani

"A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin."

: Amy Tan\

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

: Honore de Balzac

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

Jewish Proverb

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

— Unknown

All mothers are working mothers.

— Unknown

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Mark Twain

Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee

Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 3

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

— Irish proverb

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

— Will Rogers

 Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but Mother
 Anonymous

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

— Phyllis Diller

 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
 Rajneesh

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

— Diana, Princess of Wales 

 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

 

 

 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

 The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom

 Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman





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

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

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

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

  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

 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

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


 As is the mother, so is her daughter
 Ezekiel :

 No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
 Anonymous quotes



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

 Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age
 William Feather, The Business of Life,


 And remember that behind every successful womanis a basket of dirty laundry
 Unknown

 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

 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




 Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children
 Sam Levenson

 If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much
 Inspirational Quotes
 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


 Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you
 Jill Bennett






 Men are what their mothers made them
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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


 There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it
 Chinese Proverb

 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
 Honore de Balzac, author

 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 mothers are working mothers
 Author 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

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

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 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

 

 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




 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