Greatest Mothers Day Quotes

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Sam Levenson

Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

Mothers Day, God, Christian

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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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

Mom, Mother, Baby

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In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

N.K. Jemisin

Mom, Mother, Children

N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

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Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Lady Gaga

Inspiring, Mom, Mother

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Jackie Kennedy

Mother, Children, Single Mom

Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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

Mark Twain

Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Michael Jordan

Mothers Day, Mom, Roots

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Most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl S. Buck

Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Maxim Gorky

Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Princess Diana

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl S. Buck

Love, Family, Mom

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

Love, Life, Friendship

Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Milton Berle

Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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

Rajneesh

Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

George Washington

Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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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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