Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
– Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
– Honore de Balzac

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

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

“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
– Isadora Duncan

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“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

“That best academy, a mother’s knee.”
– James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat

“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
– Jewish Proverb

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

“Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.”
– John Erskine

“The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.”
– John J. Plomp

“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.”
– John Wilmot

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

“My mother is a walking miracle.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
– Lin Yutang, Chinese writer

“Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.”
– Lionel Kauffman

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

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”
– Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.”
– Marilyn Penland

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

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