Mothers Day Quotes

Mothers Day quotes are a great way to say what you're really feeling in a poetic way. If you're having trouble coming up with sayings of your own, use these Mothers Day quotes to make a homemade Mothers Day gift or write them in a card.

Best Mothers Day Quotes

• If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
  - Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promise land. She prepares a world she will not see.
  Pope Paul VI

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
  - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

• This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
  With love's true instinct, back to thee!
  - Thomas Moore

• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
  - Lin Yutang

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

• The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key to our souls in their bosoms.
  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

• To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.
  - Arlene Benedict

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

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

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

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

• 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

• A mother understands what a child does not say.
  - Jewish proverb

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

• 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

• Motherhood is priced
  Oh God, at price no man may dare
  To lessen or misunderstand.
  - Helen Hunt Jackson

• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person who makes leaning unnecessary.
  - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey
• Now that...my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you!
  - Forest Houtenschil

• 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

• Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside of your body.
  - Elizabeth Stone

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

• Who fed me from her gentle breast
  And hushed me in her arms to rest,
  And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
  My Mother.
  - Anne Taylor

• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
  Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

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