That best academy, a mother's knee.
- Mothers Day Quotes by James Russell Lowell
Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Elizabeth Stone
Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Gregory Nunn
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.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Tenneva Jordan
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
- Mothers Day Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
- Mothers Day Quotes by James Fenton
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Betty Rollin
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Elaine Heffner
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
- Mothers Day Quotes by James Joyce
Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
- Mothers Day Quotes by John Erskine
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Jill Bennett
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Golda Meir
Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Unknown
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Ezekiel 16:4
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Honore de Balzac
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
- Mothers Day Quotes by Nancy Thayer
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Lin Yutang
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Jewish proverb
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Mildred B. Vermont
Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but Mother.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Anonymous
If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Henry Bickersteth
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
- Mothers Day Quotes by T. DeWitt Talmage
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Chinese Proverb
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.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Sophia Loren
No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
- Mothers Day Quotes by Anonymous quotes
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Spanish Proverb
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Aristotle
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Lawrence Housman
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Sam Levenson
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- Mothers Day Quotes by William Feather
And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Unknown
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Rajneesh
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Unknown
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Peter De Vries
All mothers are working mothers.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Unknown
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.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Mothers Day Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver |
