Mother’s Day Quotes and Sayings

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.  ~William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce

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

A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.  ~Author Unknown

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

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  ~Robert Brault

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.  ~John Erskine

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ~Author Unknown

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.  ~Irish Proverb

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  ~Lord Langdale

Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.  ~Author Unknown

A mother understands what a child does not say.  ~Author Unknown

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.  ~Author Unknown

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.  ~Lawrence Housman

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.  ~Aristotle

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.  ~Oprah Winfrey