Mother Quotes
Enjoy our short inspirational collection of mother quotes and sayings. We hope these brief mother quotes remind you of the special people that Moms are and how they are always a special part of our lives. Many times we do not show enough appreciation for our good Moms - use one of these inspirational quotes to thank your Mother and remind here how special she is."God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers."
Jewish Proverb
"A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you,
but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself
and loves you just the same."
Author Unknown
"You're a very special lady, who showered me with love
I am thankful for you as I've told God above."
Charley, from For Mum
This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
Thomas Moore
"Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no
chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away?
It is you, my mother."
Thomas Carlyle
"Appreciation for all you have done for me can never be expressed in words, but
Thank You Mum for Everything."
Catherine Pulsifer
"All that I am my mother made me."
John Quincy Adams
"Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it."
James H. Bossard
"Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life."
Maureen Hawkins
more short quotes and concise sayings about mothers
"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key fo that treasure chamber evry gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"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
"Mom, whenever I was stressed,
you always did your best,
you never lost your believe,
and always brought me stress relief."
C Butler
"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters."
George Herbert
"Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."
T. DeWitt Talmage
"A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you."
Author Unknown
"We do not have a true appreciation of our mothers until we become a mother ourself."
Catherine Pulsifer
"Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
Jane Welsh Carlyle
"Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
Pamela Glenconner
"To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself."
Chinese Proverb
"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing
for their babies is usually best after all."
Benjamin Spock
"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love"
Mildred B. Vermont
"A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance."
Author Unknown
"Rejecting things because they are old-fashion would rule out the sun and the moon,
and a mother's love.
Author Unknown
"A mother understands what a child does not say."
Proverb
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Nothing else will ever make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, as motherhood."
Elia Parsons
"The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and
anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and
is content with nothing less than his best."
Hamilton W. Mabie
"The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven."
William Goldsmith Brown
"Mothers Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived--the Mother of your heart"
Anna Jarvis
"A mother holds her children's hands for a while, their hearts forever."
Author Unknown
"The mother love is like God's love; he loves us not because we are lovable,
but because it is His nature to love, and because we are His children."
Earl Riney
"On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines:
You're my mother, I would have no other!"
~Forest Houtenschil
"Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance."
Ruth E. Renkel
"Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, Thank you, Mother dear."
Author Unknown
"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
"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."
Sophocles
"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
"Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance
and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have."
Hannah W. Smith
"A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done."
Author Unknown
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer
light between the heart and the heavenly Father."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
Oprah Winfrey
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