Mothers Day Inspirational Quotes

• 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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• 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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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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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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  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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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Daughter

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.11

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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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• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• 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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• 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 hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

  Mike Wallace

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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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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• 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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• Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

  Jill Bennett

  Marriage, Mom, Mother

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• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, Prayer, Motherhood

  The Light That Failed (1891) dedication

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• 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

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Struggle

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• 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 defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Mother, Opportunity

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• Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

  Betty Rollin

  Mom, Mother, Block

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