Mothers Day Quote, Quotations, Sayings

• "A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest." ~ Irish Proverb
• "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."~ Jewish Proverb
• "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to making leaning unnecessary." ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ~ Lin Yutang
• 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
• "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 (1732-1799)
• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."~ Mark Twain
• "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, from Women and Beauty
• "Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
• "A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done."~ Unknown
• "The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician." ~ Sidney J. Harris
• "Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children."~ Maxim Gorky
• "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ~ Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)
• "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.~ W.R. Wallace
• "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.~ Mark Twain
• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI
• "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." ~ Sophocles
• "My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." ~ Buddy Hackett
• To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. ~ Arlene Benedict
• A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert
• A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb