Mother’s Day Quotes, Sayings for Mom

Women who miscalculate are called mothers - Abigail Van Buren.

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

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother - Abraham Lincoln.

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights - Adabella Radici.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly - Ambrose Bierce.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own - Aristotle.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother - Beverly Jones.

My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors - Carrie Latet.

Mother’s love grows by giving - Charles Lamb.

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew. I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her - Charlie Chaplin.

Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers - Colette.

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

The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face - D.W. Winnicott.

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled - Emily Dickinson.

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

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement - Florida Scott-Maxwell.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters - George Herbert.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her - George Washington Bush.

Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that - Golda Meir.

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.

Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother - Gregory Nunn.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers - Harriet Beecher Stowe.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones - Harry Truman.

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom - Henry Ward Beecher.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers - Harry Emerson Fosdick.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness - Honore de Balzac.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint - James Fenton.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not - James Joyce.

The phrase “working mother” is redundant - Jane Sellman.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you - Jill Bennett.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort - John Lancaster Spalding.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease - Lisa Alther.

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam - Lord Langdale.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along - Margaret Culkin Banning.

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

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials - Meryl Streep.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love - Mildred B. Vermont.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? - Milton Berle.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother - Napoleon Bonaparte.

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his - Oscar Wilde.

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together - Pearl S. Buck.

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after - Peter De Vries.

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.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love - Stevie Wonder.

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

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.

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

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

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother - W. Somerset Maugham.

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