Happy Mothers Day Greetings Quotes:

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

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

- Lisa Alther

source: Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

topic: Mom, Mother, Jobs, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

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

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

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

- Donna Ball

topic: Motherhood, Choices, Forgiving, Joys Of Motherhood, Being A 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

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

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

- Martina Hingis

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

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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 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

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

- Lin Yutang

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