Mother's Day Quotes

Quotes for Mother's Day

Mothers Day 2009 is Sunday May 10, 2009

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, U.S. President

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


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, U.S. President

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, Women and Beauty

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle

Mother's Day Quotes



If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
- Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)


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

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
- Golda Meir






Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
- Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul


Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
- T. DeWitt Talmage




A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
- Irish Proverb


Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
- Helen Hunt Jackson


Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey


You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
- William D. Tammeus


Now that... my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you!
- Forest Houtenschil



Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone