Mother's Day quotes

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“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.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

“Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“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.”

“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”

“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”

“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.”

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

“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.”

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
~ Ogden Nash”

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

“My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.”

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

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

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

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

“This is the thing that I was born to do.”

“That is what I want to be remembered for.”

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”

“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. ”

“If it's not one thing, it's your mother.”