Non Mothers On Mothers Day Quotes

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

Laurence Housman

#2. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Mike Wallace

#3. Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. Neither boy ever intended to speak about the events at the cliff that day. But of course their mothers eventually worked the truth out of them. Mothers always do.

John Flanagan

#5. When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Anne-Marie Costallat, born October 8, 1944. I was beginning high school and masturbating twice a day, curling over it like a dead leaf, when she was born, in a bed of violets, as she says - all French mothers tell their children that.

James Salter

#7. A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Sarah Ruhl

#8. Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.

Antonia Perdu

#9. One day you'll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don't ever leave. But right now? Don't mourn me, she

Shelly Crane

#10. We didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.

Eliot Schrefer

#11. Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."
That's how some days feel - when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.

Vera Nazarian

#12. Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way - the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

Nora Roberts

#13. The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.

June Shaw

#14. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Bob Hope

#15. Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Lisa See

#16. Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#17. At the end of the day, can you look back and say to yourself, "Today, my mother would be proud of me because I gave it all I had"? If you can, you will have had a very good day. And if you can do this every day, you will have a very good life.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#18. Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating.

Nadia Hashimi

#19. If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

Gilbert Parker

#22. The mothers in my neighborhood were screamers and yellers, silent fuming carpet-raking speed cleaners or detached unkempt anticleaners, all-day-luncheon martini drinkers, chain smokers prostrate on the couch with bookcases filled with accounts of JFK and Camelot.

Laurie Lindeen

#23. Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly ... yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

Sophia Loren

#24. Of course, Bella." The duchess leaned over, and pressed their cheeks together. "What are mothers for, if not to help their daughters find mistresses for their husbands?

Sylvia Day

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

Victor Hugo

#26. We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#27. One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

Samuel Smiles

#28. Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.

Eleesha

#29. Ah the three-day blues, all new mothers cry on the third day. And I remember thinking, But my goodness, who wouldn't cry?

Liane Moriarty

#30. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

Sydney Strand