Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
– Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

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

“I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.”
– Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, M*A*S*H, “Identity Crisis,”

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
– Dinah Craik

“Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?”
– Donald E. Westlake

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

“Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.”
– Elaine Heffner

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
– Elizabeth Stone

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

“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
– Ezekiel

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

“Now that… my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you!”
– Forest Houtenschil

“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

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word “collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”
– Fran Lebowitz, “Parental Guidance,” Social Studies, 1981

“Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over.”
– George Cooper

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
– Germaine Greer

“Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.”
– Gloria Estefan

“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

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”
– Golda Meir

“Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.”
– Gregory Nunn

“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.”
– Haim Ginott

“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.”
– Henry Bickersteth

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