Mothers Day Quotes
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
Chinese proverb
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
W.R. Wallace
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
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Author Unknown
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.
Rajneesh
A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.
Author Unknown
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing.
Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Sophocles
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.
Arlene Benedict
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold Hulbert
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
African Proverb
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
Hodding Carter
