Happy Mother’s Day
I love quotes. So for Mother’s Day I share with you some special ones that I gathered a few years ago.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, American man of letters
There is in all this cold and hollow world
No fount of deep, strong, deathless love;
Save that within a mother’s heart.
- Felicia Hemans, English Poet
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewls and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be-
I had a mother who read to me.
- Strickland Gillian
God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
She discovered with great delight that ones does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children, but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory; love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.
- Kate Samperi
The most important thing she’s learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill
Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you prefered him to remove your brain or your heart.
- Mary Kay Blakely
Making the decision to have a child- it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone
The biggest problem facing a pregnant woman is not nausea or fatigue or her wardrobe- it’s free advice.
- Sophia Loren
When I was pregnant with Josephine I told Mother, “All I could possibly hope for with my children is that they love me as much as I love you.”
- Madeleine L’Engle
Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
That is the miracle of life.
- Maureen Hawkins
Yes, Mother… I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
- Alice Walker
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength- in search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
- Alice Walker
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
- Nancy Friday
Mother’s love shapes son’s sense of belonging to the world.
- William Wordsworth
Belle-Mere. The French chose this word to give to the mother-in-law. It means beautiful mothers. I wish all nations would adopt it.
- Marlene Dietrich
She was a grand lady. When I hear these mother-in-law jokes I don’t laugh. They are not funny to me because I’ve had a good one.
- Harry S. Truman
My mother was the brains of the family- an avid reader and a passionate polemicist who had a love affair with ideas. She preceded us at the high school we attended where she earned a reputation as a very bright and gifted student. I was proud of my mother’s mind.
- Gloria Jean Wade-Gayles
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
- Lillian Hellman
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
-Johnetta B. Cole
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happy happy day t you, mama. i loved reading the quotes especially the jewish proverb. lovely.