Mother's Day Quotes
"God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers."
- Jewish Proverb
" A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
- Honore de Balzac
" 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
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
- Oscar Wilde
" There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
- A Chinese Proverb
" A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."
- Peter De Vries
"Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young."
- Dave Barry
" It kills you to see them grow up. But I would think it would kill you quicker if they didn't."
[paraphrased] - Barbara Kingsolver
" 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 you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
" All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
" No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
" My mother loved children. She would have given anything if I had been one."
- Groucho Marx
" Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day."
- Jay Leno
" Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on, each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours."
- Charlotte Gray