“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
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.” ~Mildred B. Vermont
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” ~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, Women and Beauty
“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
“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
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.” ~William D. Tammeus
“Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.” ~Author Unknown
“A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” ~Author Unknown
“Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.”
~Ann Taylor
“A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.” ~Author Unknown
“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
“Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.” ~Author Unknown
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~Washington Irving
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother’s kiss – sweeter this
Than any other thing!”
~William Allingham
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~Marcel Proust
“A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.” ~Author Unknown
“Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.” ~Marilyn Penland
“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.” ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ~Honoré de Balzac
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” ~Meryl Streep
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~Washington Irving
