Mother's Day Quotes

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
-By Honore de Balzac

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child, and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
-By Robert Brault

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
-By Washington Irving

My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother.
-By Sharon Doubiago

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
-By George Herbert

There's nothing like a mama-hug.
-By Terri Guillemets

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
-By Ann Taylor

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
-By T. DeWitt Talmage

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

Mother's love grows by giving.
-By Charles Lamb

I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
-By Renita Weems

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
-By Washington Irving

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.
-By Carrie Latet

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
-A Jewish Proverb

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
-Author Unknown

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
-By Marilyn French