Mothers Day Quotes

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him. ~ Erma Bombeck

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. ~ Billy Sunday

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo

Mom, you made me who I am
whether it is good or bad is a matter of opinion. ~ Nitya Prakash

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ~ Erica Jong

The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mommy pampering. They cut cucumbers and put them on my eyes and my daughter gave me a facial. I'm not even sure what was in it! ~ Elisabeth Hasselbeck

We do have some strong traditions of community in the United States, but it's interesting to me that our traditionally patriotic imagery in this country celebrates the individual, the solo flier, independence. We celebrate Independence Day; we don't celebrate We Desperately Rely on Others Day. Oh, I guess that's Mother's Day [laughter]. It does strike me that our great American mythology tends to celebrate separate achievement and separateness, when in fact nobody does anything alone. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it. ~ Karen Joy Fowler

No place in this world is, as safe as my mother's womb,
And nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother. ~ Luffina Lourduraj

Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow. ~ Eleesha

Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life. ~ Kate Siegel

Behind great men, children, companies or homes are some extraordinary women! Take time today and always to acknowledge the women in your life with a show of gratitude. Love compels a woman's heart. Appreciation drives her commitment. Kindness fuels her strength. Compassion gives her courage. God gives her to you. ~ Carlos Wallace

You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one. ~ Pam Brown

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ~ F.H. Bradley

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers. ~ Rosie O'Donnell

My mother is a walking miracle. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother. ~ Chelsea Clinton

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. ~ Ellen Barkin

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

There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it. ~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Tell her how much all the little things she does all year long that seem to go unnoticed really mean to you." With a $2.59 card. Mother's Day is built on that idea. ~ Shonda Rhimes

We must distinguish between 'sentimental' and 'sensitive'. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is never a cruel person. Sentimental Rousseau, who could weep over a progressive idea, distributed his many natural children through various poorhouses and workhouses and never gave a hoot for them. A sentimental old maid may pamper her parrot and poison her niece. The sentimental politician may remember Mother's Day and ruthlessly destroy a rival. Stalin loved babies. Lenin sobbed at the opera, especially at the Traviata. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer. ~ William J. Clinton

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

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 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

Did you know that at some point, a mama eagle pushes her babies out of the nest? She shoves them right out, and they have to fly to survive the fall." "And if they don't fly?" "I guess they don't buy her a Mother's Day present. ~ Jenny B. Jones

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel. ~ J. B. Smoove

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are. ~ Jamaica Kincaid

A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them. ~ Joan Rivers

Today, I celebrate my Mother. Strong, passionate, stubborn and proud. An educator, and wife. She was both fearless and vulnerable, unashamed of either. She demanded the best, especially of me. I dedicate my life to exceeding her highest expectations. This is how I honor my Mother, my friend, my inspiration. In spirit she forever guides me. Thank you momma, for I am never lost. ~ Carlos Wallace

Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. ~ Gloria Steinem

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. ~ Gilbert Parker

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln

On Mother's Day, I like to feel pampered. I like to feel celebrated. I like to feel honored. I like to feel glamorous. ~ Tia Mowry

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. ~ Francis Maude

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. ~ Anne Lamott

You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to a spa treatment till next Mother's Day.'"

"Joining the words 'Lose Weight, Effortlessly!' in the same sentence may be a form of hate speech."

"Try to make time for the things that are important, not just the things that are urgent."

"I want my work to matter, my words to count for the good, and to spread some good cheer along the way. ~ Judy Gruen

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln

my mother
is pure radiance.

she is the sun
i can touch
and kiss

and hold
without
getting burnt. ~ Sanober Khan

I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy. ~ Angelina Jolie

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

The Bible looks the way it does because "God lets his children tell the story," so to speak. Children see the world from their limited gaze. A second grader might give a class presentation on what mom does all day. She will talk about her mom from her point of view, rooted in love and devotion. She'll filter - unconsciously and in an age-appropriate manner - her mother's day through how she perceives her family and her role in the family. She'll get some things more or less correct, but she will also misunderstand other things, and get still other things plain wrong. ~ Peter Enns

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. ~ Oprah Winfrey

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. ~ James Levine

In May I received an anonymous Mother's Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely? ~ Neil Gaiman

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. ~ Diane Lane

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~ Bob Hope

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same. ~ Hanna Rosin

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. ~ Margaret Heffernan

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

In the last five years, a thousand times have I sat on this window and asked the sky why didn't my mother taught me how to let go. ~ Nitya Prakash

So while it is great to celebrate on a day dedicated to moms, I urge each of you, to ALWAYS be good to the woman who is so good to you. Honor your mothers EVERY DAY by letting her know she is the real MVP in your life. ~ Carlos Wallace

And Kate thought about a time, long ago, when she had witnessed an ongoing romance between two mental patients. As a teenager watching their unlikely relationship unfold in front of her, she had understood that people did whatever they needed to do to be happy, regardless of their unfortunate circumstances. She supposed her mother's day care center was born out of the desire to feel needed, while making use of the skills that were practically all she had managed to acquire during decades of battling a debilitating illness. ~ Sabrynne McLain

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more. ~ Wilbur Smith

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? ... Isn't it bad public policy? ... No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May. ~ Russell Baker

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise
as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ~ Allan Bloom

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~ Mark Twain

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

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies. ~ Vera Farmiga

Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life - but, partaking of life's learning. ~ Eleesha

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too. ~ Magic Johnson

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

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. ~ Phyllis Schlafly

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration? ~ Charles R. Swindoll

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days ... or a few months after childbirth. ~ Richard J. Codey

That best academy, a mother's knee. ~ James Russell Lowell

I really learned it all from mothers. ~ Benjamin Spock

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman. ~ Hillary Clinton

Thanks, mom. I turned out pretty awesome! ~ Nitya Prakash

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

I love you more than anything in the world combined. ~ Stephenie Meyer

The room smells of lemon oil, heavy cloth, fading daffodils, the leftover smells of cooking that have made their way from the kitchen or the dining room, and of Serena Joy's perfume: Lily of the Valley. Perfume is a luxury, she must have some private source. I breathe it in, thinking I should appreciate it. It's the scent of pre-pubescent girls, of the gifts young children used to give their mothers, for Mother's Day; the smell of white cotton socks and white cotton petticoats, of dusting powder, of the innocence of female flesh not yet given over to hairiness and blood. It makes me feel slightly ill, as it I'm in a closed car on a hot muggy day with an older woman wearing too much face powder. This is what the sitting room is like, despite its elegance. ~ Margaret Atwood

Screw you, Jasper," said Castle mildly, "and screw Mother's Day and Christmas, too. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

My mom is definitely my rock. ~ Alicia Keys

Throughout my life, there were a few hard days. Days where even when I tried to be happy, my heart still cracked, and Mother's Day was one of those. For others, it stood as a celebration. For me, it spoke of loss and failure. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

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! ~ Jordin Sparks

If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~ Mike Wallace

There are all kinds of ways and reasons that mothers can and should be praised. But for cultivating a sense of invisibility, martyrdom and tirelessly working unnoticed and unsung? Those are not reasons. Praising women for standing in the shadows? Wrong. Where is the greeting card that praises the kinds of mothers I know? Or better yet, the kind of mother I was raised by? I need a card that says: "Happy Mother's Day to the mom who taught me to be strong, to be powerful, to be independent, to be competitive, to be fiercely myself and fight for what I want." Or "Happy Birthday to a mother who taught me to argue when necessary, to raise my voice for my beliefs, to not back down when I know I am right." Or "Mom, thanks for teaching me to kick ass and take names at work. Get well soon." Or simply "Thank you, Mom, for teaching me how to make money and feel good about doing it. Merry Christmas. ~ Shonda Rhimes

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ~ Marguerite Duras

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have. ~ Ann Romney

Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path. ~ Anne Lamott

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world. ~ Violet James

Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me. ~ Maggie Young

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. ~ Nick Hanauer

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~ Nitya Prakash

It's Mother's Day, so a big 'Happy Birthday' to all you mothers out there! ~ Mike Shannon

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing. ~ Amy Grant

Ego Tripping

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach e ~ Nikki Giovanni

Best things about mothers, everyone has got the best one! ~ Nitya Prakash

I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and grandmother how much I love them. Now that I'm a mom, it is a special day to spend with my children. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand

Principal Brill, those costumes were made by my mother. My mother, who has stage four small-cell lung cancer. My mother, who will never watch her little boy celebrate another Halloween again. My mother, who will more than likely experience a year of 'lasts'. Last Christmas. Last birthday. Last Easter. And if God is willing, her last Mother's Day. My mother, who when asked by her nine-year-old son if he could be her cancer for Halloween, had no choice but to make him the best cancerous tumor-riden lung costume she could. So if you think it's so offensive, I suggest you drive them home yourself and tell my mother to her face. Do you need my address? ~ Colleen Hoover

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next. ~ Nora Ephron

My mother raised me to not hold grudges so I rather forgive and let my tiny heart be at peace. ~ Nitya Prakash

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. ~ Dan Savage