Short Mothers Day Quotes

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

Family, Inspiring, Mothers Day

Barbara Kingsolver (2001). “Homeland and Other Stories”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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 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

Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Family, Mothers Day, God

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

Family, Friday, Mother

"Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Funny, Family, Mothers Day

Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Lin Yutang

Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Agatha Christie

Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Marcel Proust

Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

Washington Irving

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore

Mothers Day, Mom, Heart

Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Bob Hope

Mothers Day, Mean, Motherhood

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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

Rajneesh

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

Robert Breault

Family, Mom, Mother

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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Phyllis Diller

Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Golda Meir

Family, Mothers Day, Children

1972 In Newsweek, 23 Oct.

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Inspirational, Funny

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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 Sr.

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.124, Reprint Services Corporation

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 (Part II): The Friend”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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