Happy Mothers Day Text Quotes:

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

- Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

- Bob Hope

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

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

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

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

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey

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

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

source: Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

topic: Mother, Children, Age, Middle Aged, Being A 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

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

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

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 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

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

- Lin Yutang

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

- Nancy Thayer

topic: Baby, Motherhood, Pleasure, Inspirational Mom, Inspirational Motherhood

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

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

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

- Betty Rollin

topic: Mother, Block, Men, Mothers Day Inspirational, Childbearing

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 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

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

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

- Golda Meir

topic: Mother, Children, Struggle, Inspirational Motherhood, Inspiring Motherhood

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

topic: Mom, Mother, Good Friend, Mother's Day, Mothers Day Messages

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

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

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Inspiring Motherhood, Mother's Day

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Mom, Mother, Son, Mother Son, Good Mother

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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