Mother's Day Quotes...

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

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont

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

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries

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)

All mothers are working mothers.  ~Author Unknown

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

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

All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

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 love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty

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

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.  ~Author Unknown

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

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

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.  ~Jewish Proverb

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

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


Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.  ~John Wilmot

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.  ~Haim Ginott

It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.  ~Lionel Kauffman

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.  ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  ~Chinese Proverb

Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.  ~Lawrence Housman

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.  ~William Makepeace Thackeray

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.  ~Sam Levenson

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.  ~John J. Plomp