Greatest Mothers Day Quotes:

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Mother, Stars, Men, Special Mother, Good Mother

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

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

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

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

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

- James Joyce

topic: Family, Mom, Mother, I Love My Mother, Being A Mother

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

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

- N.K. Jemisin

source: N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

topic: Mom, Mother, Children, Benevolent, Mother And Child

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

- Lady Gaga

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

topic: Inspiring, Mom, Mother, Mom Knows Best, Mother Care

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Mom, Mother, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother, Just A Mom

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

- Jackie Kennedy

source: Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

topic: Children, Motherhood, Parenting, Joys Of Motherhood, Single Parent

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Baby, Just A Mom, Love Mom

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Mom, Mother, Roots, I Love My Mother, Inspirational Mom

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

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 arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

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

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

- Princess Diana

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, I Love My Mother, Special Mother

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

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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

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

- Lin Yutang

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

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

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

- George Eliot

topic: Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting, I Love My Mother, Inspirational Motherhood

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