Famous Mother's Day Quotes

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
By W. Somerset Maugham on Affection

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
By Maxim Gorky on Birth

Her children rise up and bless her.
By Proverbs 31:28 on Blessings

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
By Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on Children

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
By Florida Scott-Maxwell on Children

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
By Sidney J. Harris on Children

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
By W. S. Ross on Cradles

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
By Henry Ward Beecher on Education

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
By Honore' de Balzac on Forgiveness

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
By Marion C. Garretty on Fuel

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all
By Oliver Wendell Holmes on Hope

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
By Dorothy Canfield Fisher on Leaning

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
By Edwin H. Chapin on Love

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
By James Fenton on Lullaby

"M" is for the million things she gave me, "O" means only that she's growing old, "T" is for the tears she shed to save me, "H" is for her heart of purest gold; "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining, "R" means right, and right she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER," A word that means the world to me.
By Howard Johnson on M-O-T-H-E-R

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
By Jill Bennett on Marriage

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
By Germaine Greer on Mental Health

There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.
By Archibald Thompson on Mom's Lap

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
By Abraham Lincoln on Mother

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
By Kahil Gibran on 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.
By George Washington on Mother's

Mother's Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived the Mother of your heart.
By Anna Jarvis on Mother's Day

Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children.
By Brandon Lee on Name

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
By Gregory Nunn on Past

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.
By Tenneva Jordan on Pie

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

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
By Lin Yutang on Rights

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.
By Sophia Loren on Thoughts

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
By Mark Twain on Trouble

Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
By Sarah Malin on Wings

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.
By Golda Meir on Work

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
By Ancient Proverb on Work