Mothers Day Quotes

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

I really learned it all from mothers.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

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.

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

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

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

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

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.