Mother´s Day

Mother´s Day
May 10, 2015

1. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis


2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jill Bennett


3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Dorothy Canfield Fisher


4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home.
At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Golda Meir


5. Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Unknown 

6. As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Ezekiel 16:4


7. Men are what their mothers made them.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Ralph Waldo Emerson


8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Harriet Beecher Stowe


9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Henry Ward Beecher


  10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Honore de Balzac, author


11. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman 

12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Nancy Thayer, author


13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author


14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Lin Yutang, Chinese writer

15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer

16. That best academy, a mother's knee.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat


17. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elizabeth Stone


18. Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Gregory Nunn


19. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Tenneva Jordan


20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: W. Somerset Maugham


21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Fenton


22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Florida Scott-Maxwell

23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Betty Rollin


24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elaine Heffner


25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Joyce


26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Germaine Greer


27. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: John Erskine

28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Oscar Wilde


29. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Rajneesh


30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown


31. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Peter De Vries


32. All mothers are working mothers.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown


33. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Oliver Wendell Holmes

34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Helen Hunt Jackson


35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Barbara Kingsolver


36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jewish proverb


37. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Abraham Lincoln


38. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Mildred B. Vermont


39. Nobody knows of the work it makes
To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows-but Mother.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anonymous


40. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Henry Bickersteth


41. Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: T. DeWitt Talmage


42. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Chinese Proverb


43. 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.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty


44. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anonymous quotes


45. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Spanish Proverb

46. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Aristotle


47. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Lawrence Housman


48. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Sam Levenson


49. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949


50. And remember that behind every successful woman......is a basket of dirty laundry.
Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Unknown