Top 100 Quotes About Mothers Day
#1. I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
Lauren Bacall
#2. Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.
Doug Stanhope
#3. 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
#4. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
Nancy Thayer
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.
Eleesha
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Gilbert Parker
#15. The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman
#20. Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
Lisa See
#21. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Bob Hope
#22. The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.
June Shaw
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.
Antonia Perdu
#28. 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
#29. 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
#31. 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
#33. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore De Balzac
#34. The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.
Lionel Shriver
#35. You breathe.
You feel.
You see
and hear
and smell
and taste
and think
and move
and laugh
and weep
and heal
and dance
and sing
and love.
Thank your mother.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
Adrienne Rich
#37. This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
Thomas Moore
#38. Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
Will Rogers
#39. There is only one mother in this world who is the best one; the one that every kid has got.
Vikrmn
#40. Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#41. It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
Caroline Kennedy
#42. I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
Oprah Winfrey
#43. There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#44. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
Lin Yutang
#45. My mother is my friend
Who shares with me her bread
All my hopelessness cured!
Her company makes me secured!
Israelmore Ayivor
#46. I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.
Karen White
#47. Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day.
Nalini Singh
#50. My mother is my pastor
She teaches me the Bible
I love her as my mentor
She tells me to be humble!
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.
Piper Kerman
#52. The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it can't be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in another direction.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#53. I am a champion. My mom made sure that I did yoga every day. She dragged me because that was something she was doing for herself. She would have a great time with her friends. All the mothers would sit together and the kids all did yoga.
Rajashree Choudhury
#54. At the end of the school day, we walked the long, cold way home feeling happy and hungry. There we found a warm fire, country ham with gravy and hot biscuits, and a mother to hug us! If snow blew under the doors that night, what did it matter? Christmas time was just around the corner.
Jenny Lee Ellison
#55. Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers - past & present.
Eleesha
#57. The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.
Zarina Bibi
#58. Cancer. And every day these women got up and did what they had to do because they were caregivers, wives, friends, mothers. There
Karen McQuestion
#59. Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. Hug your children ... Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#63. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.
V.C. Andrews
#64. Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.
Anne Lamott
#65. Every day, President Obama and Senator McCaskill are making it harder for working mothers and women of all ages to find a good-paying job. They continue to dictate to our families how they should live, stripping them of opportunities and freedom.
Sarah Steelman
#66. It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.
Eleesha
#67. While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.
Masiela Lusha
#68. For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.
William S. Burroughs
#69. Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day.
Tyler Perry
#71. The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.
Jason Thomas
#72. The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#73. There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.
Amit Ray
#75. Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
Ezra Taft Benson
#76. I find that the 'moms club' is a very, very exclusive club! It's the club of mothers who wear skinny jeans and white button-down shirts and wash their hair twice a day! I do not, and mothers who do make me feel really bad. You know who I am talking about!
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#77. A mother's love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother's love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope.
Ellen J. Barrier
#78. On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.
Jane Goodall
#79. 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.
Stevie Wonder
#80. Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot
#84. It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Mothers observe all, absorb all,
give all, forgive all,
offer all, suffer all,
feel all, heal all,
hope for all, pray for all.
But most of all,
Mothers love always.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
Martina Hingis
#87. There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
Billy Sunday
#88. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
#89. Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.
J. B. Smoove
#90. My mama is my feeding bottle ... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Robert Breault
#93. As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
Kathryn Stockett
#94. Badly off as the men ... were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
Edward Bellamy
#96. With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
Isadora Duncan
#97. No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
Anne Lamott
#98. Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
Michelle M. Pillow
#99. Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
Charlotte Gray
#100. Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.
Phil Jones
