Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.”
– Spanish Proverb

“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

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
– Theodore Hesburgh

“This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love’s true instinct, back to thee!”
– Thomas Moore

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
– Unknown

“And remember that behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry.”
– Unknown

“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
– Unknown

“No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life”
– Unknown

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

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

“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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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

“Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother’s kiss – sweeter this Than any other thing!”
– William Allingham

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.”
– William D. Tammeus

“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
– William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

“The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.”
– William Goldsmith Brown

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

“For the hand that rocks the cradle – Is the hand that rules the world”
– William Ross Wallace

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer

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