Happy Mother's Day!, Mom Quotes...

Quotes and a Verse on Mothers and Motherhood


"Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her."
- Proverbs 31:28
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"It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman
I ever knew. I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since,
but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother.
If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her."
- Charles Chaplin
Y

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
- H. W. Beecher
Y

"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
Y

"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
Y

"Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Y

"There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave
as a lioness. The memory of my mother and her teachings were,
after all, the only capital I had to start life with,
and on that capital I have made my way."
- Andrew Jackson
Y

"If you bungle raising your children,
I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Y

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere
pleasant - and let the air out of the tires."
- Dorothy Parker

- Dedicated to my little mommy who taught me how to enjoy the little things in life.
Love you, mom!! Happy Mother's Day, mom, and all the moms out there!!

Mother's Day Quotes...

Quotes for Mother's Day


"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."
- T. DeWitt Talmage
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"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
- A Jewish Proverb
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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane
in its perfect power."
- Maya Angelou
Y

"The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother,
Home, and Heaven."
- William Goldsmith Brown
Y

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
- Ambrose Bierce
Y

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense,
tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side,
yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother,
and become fully independent."
- Erich Fromm
Y

"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
Y

"If motherhood teaches us anything it's that we can't change
our children, only ourselves."
- Katrina Kenison
Y

"A mother is a person, who seeing there are only four pieces of pie
for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."
- Tenneva Jordan
Y

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
- Milton Berle
Y

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother's Influence Quotes and a Verse...

Mother's Influence Quotes and a Verse

"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

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

"There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a
dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and
her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life
with, and on that capital I have made my way."
- Andrew Jackson

"I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge.
When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long
enough for me to run across safely."
- Renita Weems

"My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort,
happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words
but I always remember the tune."
- Graycie Harmon

"To describe my mother would be to write about
a hurricane in its perfect power."
- Maya Angelou

"It seems to me that my mother
was the most splendid woman I ever knew.
I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since,
but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman
than my mother. If I have amounted to anything,
it will be due to her."
- Charles Chaplin

"My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write is a poem to my mother."
- Sharon Doubiago

"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

"My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much
they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back."
- Denzel Washington

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier you'll be a General;
if you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead,
I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
- Pablo Picasso

"My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about
many people except relatives, and organ donors."
- Carrie Latet

"I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
the deepest impressed on my heart."
- Eliza Cook

"A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her."
- Proverbs 31:10, 25-28