Popular Mothers Day Quotes

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

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher 
 
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
George Cooper

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
William Goldsmith Brown

Every man for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honour.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
John Erskine

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
Sarah Malin

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

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

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott

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

Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb

That best academy, a mother’s knee.
James Russell Lowell 

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Attributed to Claudia Ghandi