Mother's Day Quotations

Use these lovely quotations in cards and letters or on gift tags to show your Mother how much you love her.

 

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
George Eliot

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

"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

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

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

"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

"I really learned it all from mothers."
Dr. Benjamin Spock

"Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother."
Gregory Nunn

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

"I love old mothers - mothers with white hair and kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet with murmured blessings over sleeping babes."
Charles S. Ross

"A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."
Mary Kay Blakeley

"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
Elizabeth Stone

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

"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

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
Mark Twain