mothers day parentingMothers Day Quotes, Thoughts. Reflections on Parenting

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  Robert Brault

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

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

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.  William D. Tammeus

A good father is a little bit of a mother. Lee Salk

All mothers are working mothers.  Author Unknown

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.  Jewish Proverb

A mother understands what a child does not say.  Author Unknown

There is nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in heredity. - Doug Lawson

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying. - Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

The greatest aide to adult education is children. Charles T Jones and Bob Phillips, Wit and Wisdom

 Parenting and Mothers Day Thoughts Quotes & Tips

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  Abraham Lincoln

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

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.Mildred B. Vermont

The sweetest sounds to mortals given

Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

William Goldsmith Brown

 A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  Peter De Vries

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.  Henry Bickersteth

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. 

All mothers are working mothers.  Author Unknown

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.  Sophia Loren

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul

A mother is a mother still,

The holiest thing alive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 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.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.  Phyllis Diller

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness.  It's the men who are discriminated against.  They can't bear children.  And no one's likely to do anything about that.  Golda Meir

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

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.Oprah Winfrey

Motherhood is priced

Of God, at price no man may dare

To lessen or misunderstand.

Helen Hunt Jackson

A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.  Author Unknown

It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  Barbara Kingsolver

A mother's heart is a patchwork of love.  ~Author Unknown

On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you.  In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines:  You're my mother, I would have no other!  Forest Houtenschil

Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.  ~Author Unknown

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.  ~Lionel Kauffman

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

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.  Washington Irving

This heart, my own dear mother, bends,

With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.  John J. Plomp

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  Dinah Craik

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.