Happy Mothers Day Quotes:

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day, Funny Parent, Funny Parenting

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!

- William Allingham

source: William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.177

topic: Mother, Happy Mothers Day, Home, Happy Mothers Day Text, Short Mothers Day

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Happy Mothers Day, I Love You More, Lobster, Flamingos, Multiverse

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

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

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

- Milton Berle

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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.

- Washington Irving

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A Mother

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Family, Marriage, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Family, Friday, Mother, Best Memories, Deposits

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

topic: Mothers Day, Beautiful, Appreciation, Mother Son, Son And Daughter

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

- Maxim Gorky

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Love Mom, Your Mom

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

- Agatha Christie

topic: Family, Crush, Mom, I Love My Mother, Joys Of Motherhood

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Love, Mom, Mother, Mom And Child, Mother And Baby

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

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Mom, Mother, Baby, Mother Son, Mom And Daughter

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

- Aristotle

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Love Mom

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

topic: Family, Mothers Day, God, Mom And Daughter, Special Mother

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 Sr.

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Special Mother, Just A Mom

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

- William Feather

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspirational Mothers

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.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Being A Mother, Delicious Food

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Teacher, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

That best academy, a mother's knee.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Mom, Mother, Knees, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

Mothers are all slightly insane.

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Mother Care, Happy Mothers Day

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

- Jay Leno

topic: Smile, Mothers Day, Mom, Cute Funny, Happy Mothers Day

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Mom, Children, Mean, Inspirational Father, Mother's Day

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Mom, Mother, Song, Mothers Day Messages, Happy Mothers Day

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

- Bob Hope

topic: Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood, Mother Proverbs, Wonderful Mother

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

- Gracie Allen

topic: Mom, Mother, Justice, Mother's Day, Mother Flower

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

topic: I Love My Mother, Special Mother, Mother Day Poems, Mother Flower, Mother's Love

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

- James Fenton

topic: Mom, Mother, Humorous, Mothers Day Inspirational, Lullaby

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

- Phyllis Diller

topic: Funny, Family, Mom, Love Mom, Young Mother

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.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

topic: Family, Beautiful, Mom, Special Mother, Just A Mom

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

- Roseanne Barr

topic: Funny, Family, Mom, Happy Mothers Day

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

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special Mother

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Love, Family, Mom, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

- Robert Breault

topic: Mom, Prayer, Mother's Love, Motherhood And Love, Mothers Day Messages

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mom, Mother, Heart, Joys Of Motherhood, Slender

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Parent, Age, Generations, Younger Generation, Happy Mothers Day

Men are what their mothers made them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Success, Mom, Mother, Just A Mom, Inspirational Mom

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

- Lin Yutang

topic: Mother, Parenting, Rights, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Love, Marriage, Missing You, Leaving Home, Off To College

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

topic: Mom, Mother, Growing Up, Mothering, Mother Day Poems

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

- Marguerite Duras

source: Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.49, Grove Press

topic: Mom, Mother, People, Mothers Day Messages, Frigidity

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

- Gail Tsukiyama

source: Gail Tsukiyama (2003). “Dreaming Water: A Novel”, p.164, Macmillan

topic: Mom, Mother, Strong, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

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

- Buddy Hackett

topic: Funny, Family, Fitness, Menus, Your Mom

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

- Martina Hingis

topic: Mom, Way, My Mom, Your Mom, Mother Care