Quotes on Mothers Day

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

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

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

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.

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.

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

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

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

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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