Quotes About Moms
We have scoured the web to bring you some of the best quotes about moms. Mother’s Day is fast approaching — don’t forget to show your mom how much you love her.
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.
~ J. Reuben Clark
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
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
~ Mildred B. Vermont
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~ Peter De Vries
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
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
~ Milton Berle
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
~ Meryl Streep
My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
~ Graycie Harmon
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
~ Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul
I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
~ Adabella Radici
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
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
~ Lisa Alther
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.
~ Washington Irving
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
~ George Herbert
There’s nothing like a mama-hug.
~ Adabella Radici
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
~ From the television show The Golden Girls
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
~ Author Unknown
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.
~ Robert Fulghum
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
~ Harry Truman
The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.
~ Carrie Latet
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
~ Irish Proverb
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
~ George Washington
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Mothers reflect God’s loving presence on earth.
~ William R. Webb
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
~ Albert Einstein
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
~ Cardinal Mermillod
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I really learned it all from mothers.
~ Dr. Benjamin Spock
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
~ James Joyce
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
~ Lin Yutang
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
~ Mark Twain
When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
~ Pablo Picasso
Men are what their mothers made them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn’t want your mother to hear at your trial.
~ Sydney Biddle Barrows
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
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