Good Happy Mothers Day Quotes:

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

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

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Mom, Being A Mother, Inspirational Mom

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Son, Loss Of A Parent

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Class, Empowering Women, Being A Mother

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

topic: Family, Happiness, Mom, Beacons, Just A Mom

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

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Joys Of Motherhood, Special Mother

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

- Milton Berle

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

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

- Eddy Arnold

source: Song: MOTHER

topic: Mother, Mean, World, Mean The World To Me, Mother Day Poems

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

- Peter De Vries

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Special Mother, Just A Mom

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

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

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

- Jill Bennett

topic: Marriage, Mom, Mother, Inspiring Motherhood, Mother's Love

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

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

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mom, Mother, Arms, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A Mother

That best academy, a mother's knee.

- James Russell Lowell

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

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

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

- Roald Dahl

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Great Parents, Blisters

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

- Edwin Arnold

source: Sir Edwin Arnold (1892). “Potiphar's Wife, and Other Poems”

topic: Mother, Poet, Mothers Day Cards, Mothers Day Images, Good Happy Mothers Day

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Mother, Father, Heart, Mothers Day Love, Dear Mother

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 is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Alive, Mother's Day, Mother Day Poems

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

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

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

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

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

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

topic: Mother, Unnecessary, Persons, 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

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

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

- Alice Hoffman

source: FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from May 10, 2015

topic: Daughter, Children, Secret, Mothers Day Messages, Love For My Mother

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Joys Of Motherhood

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

- Laurence Housman

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Marriage, Children, Husband, Being A Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

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