Best mother & mothers-day Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.”

Mother Cards Fake Holiday Sentiments Mothers Day Hallmark

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.”

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.”

Mother Chance Sells Telling The Truth Perfume Mothers Day Rip

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.”

Children Long Mother Get Over Mothers Day

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”

Firsts Real Problem Happens Mother Inspiring Serious Mom Months First Time Mental Health Veteran Mothers Day Childbirth Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Richard Codey

“Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.”

Feels Feelings Mother Father Special Valentine Reminders Valentine's Day Mothers Day Relevance February

Author:Randeep Hooda

“In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'”

Made Said Kids Mother Three President Written Mom Letters Yesterday Thanks President Obama Celebration Mothers Day Necklaces Macaroni

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.”

World Way Kind War Government Together Mother Loss Happened Conflict Statements Civil War Antiwar Acceptable Mothers Day Julia Carnage During The Civil War

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.”

“What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.”

Mother Honored Mothers Day Being A Mother

Author:Liya Kebede

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.”

Able Past Mother Strong Felt Easy Sleep Inspiring Break Huge Mothers Day New Mother

Author:Amy Grant

“I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't.”

Ifs Thinking Mother Hate Mom Jokes I Hate Angry Feminist Mothers Day Affront Full Time Mom

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.”

Sometimes Mother My Own Inspiring Cutting Mom Daughter Tables Breakfast Mothers Day Smack

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”

Mother Suffering Race Effects Truth Is Prejudice Profound Reaching Minorities Contests Mothers Day Sentimentality Stripping Stripping Away Best American

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.”

Ifs Running Kids Mother Inspiring Heels Amazed Mothers Day High Heels

Author:Claudia Schiffer

“Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.”

Want Mother Inspiring Mum Mothers Day Victoria

Author:Geri Halliwell

“Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.”

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.”

Should Wells Mother Born Inspiring Half Baby Importance Filled Intellect Infant Mothers Day Conceit

Author:Augustus Hare

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