76 Quotes about Mom

Quotes for Mom from a Son

1. "My mother she's so good to me, if I was good as I could be, I couldn't be as good-no, sir.- can't any boy be good as her." - James Whitcomb Riley, A Boys Mother



2. "My mother was the sheet-anchor of my life, and the most perfect lady in all Scotland. The end of the whole matter is, that I think there is nobody like mother in the whole world. " - Daniel MacMillan



3. "A careful study of great men's lives will reveal that much of their force of character they owe to their mother." - P. H. Murdick



4. "A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of as can possibly be." - Henry Ward Beecher



5. 'In a college where one hundred and twenty young men were preparing for the ministry, it was found that more than one hundred had been led to Christ by their mothers." - J. S. C. Abbott



6. "If ever I make anything of myself in this world or another, I shall owe it to the blessed influences of home. It was my mother who brought out the best that was in me." - Daniel Coit Gilman




7. "Think about Moms - they carry us for 9 months and then are there for us to carry us if we fall down." - Tom S. Gold



8. "There is no love like the good old love the love that mother gave us." - Eugene Field



9. "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm


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Quotes for Mother from a Daughter

10. "God may choose your mother, that is true, but your mother chooses who she will be." - Julie Hebert, A Mother As Wonderful As Mine



11. "In the depths of her heart, a mother's love resides, A selfless devotion that can never be denied." - C. A. Lynch, A Mother's Sacrifice



12. "And still you reign my Queen of Hearts and I'm your Valentine." - Christina Georgina Rossetti, A Valentine To My Mother



13. "I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile." - Adriana Trigiani



14. "The best place to cry is on a mother's arms." - Jodi Picoult




15. "A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher



16. "God knows that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul." - Phyllis McGinley



17. "Mom's expectations never fail to be, guiding me with her wise words, and telling me to always seek the good." C. A. Lynch, Mom's Expectations



18. "Holy as heaven a mother's tender love, the love of many prayers and many tears, which changes not with dim declining years." - Mrs. Norton


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Funny Quotes for Mom

19. "Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together." - Susan Gale



20. "Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease." - Lisa Alther



21. "It's not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it." Betty White




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



23. "Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard." - Margaret Culkin Banning



24. "If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Milton Berle



25. "I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phyllis Diller



26. "Becoming a mom, to me, means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse." - Nia Vardalos


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Quotes for Mother's Day

27. "We couldn't have asked for a better Mother from you, we would never part " - C. A. Lynch, We Wish You



28. "Oh Mom, how deep my appreciation runs, for all the love and care you've forever spun." - C. A. Lynch, Filled With Joy



29. "Dear Mom - without you I don't know what I'd do. But with you I know there is nothing I can't do." - Author Unknown




30. "Life does not hold enough of years in which we can repay a mother's love." - Unknown, The Ways of Love



31. "Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover, hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, but only one mother the world over." Unknown, Only One Mother



32. "We celebrate you, dear Mother mine, a beacon of love that forever shines." - C. A. Lynch, A Joyful Celebration



33. "My mother's sacrifices and hard work have laid the foundation for my success, and I am forever grateful for her." - Author Unknown



34. "To my dearest mother, a debt I owe
    For the sacrifices, you made, let it show." - C. A. Lynch, Your Sacrifices Shine


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Quotes for New Mom

35. "You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love." - Jennifer Hudson



36. "A mother’s joy begins when new life is stirring inside…when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone." - Author Unknown



37. "A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die." - Mary Mason



38. "Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed." - Linda Wooten



39. "Being a Mom is not always easy. It is putting others before yourself, it is feeling the pain of childhood disappointments, it is sometimes feeling rejection and hurt, but there is so much more joys than hardship in being a Mom - it is the best thing in the world." - C. A. Lynch




40. "Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child." - Tina Brown



41. "There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child." - Anne Lamott



42. "Your children don’t want a perfect mom, they want a happy mom." - Author Unknown



43. "There is a wondrous curiosity in every young mother. It is a strange miracle to see, to hold a living being formed in and coming out of one’s self." - Simone De Beauvoir



44. "Feeling fat lasts nine months, but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever." - Nikki Dalton


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Inspiring quotes about Mom

45. "A mother's love, it knows no end. Through career and motherhood, you ascend." - C. A. Lynch, A Mother's Love Never Retires



46. "It never dies, - a mother's love - strengthens with every ill that may betide" E. O. Jewell, It Never Dies



47. "A mother's smile is a source of strength and courage, and it gives us the confidence to face whatever challenges come our way." - Author Unknown



48. "Sometimes our lives do not go our way, it leaves us broken and going astray. We are needing comfort and words that are calm. The only one who can do that, is the one we call mom." - Julie Hebert, The One We Call Mom



49. "My mother's hope for my future has instilled in me a sense of purpose and determination, driving me to pursue my passions with zeal." Author Unknown



50. "Some precious words are born of earth; some others by the angels given; but sweetest of celestial birth, are these: 'My mother,' 'Home,' and 'Heaven.'" - Author Unknown



51. "For unwearying patience and unchanging tenderness, the love of a true mother stands next to the love of our Father in Heaven." - Author Unknown




52. "My mother's forgiveness and understanding when I make mistakes is a gift that I never take for granted." - Author Unknown



53. "In the depths of her soul, a mother bows,
    With fervent prayers, her love for her children she vows." - C. A. Lynch, A Mother's Prayer



54. "My mother's hope for me is a reminder of the limitless potential within me, and a call to live up to my highest aspirations." - Author Unknown



55. "A mother comforts by clinging tenderness, by tactful suggestion, and by sympathy. Happy is the child who can come home to mother with his or her first heartache." - W. J. Twort



56. "Through sleepless nights and endless care,
    A mother's love carries burdens that few can bear." - C. A. Lynch, God's Arms to a Mother's Love


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Short mom quotes

57. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William M. Thackeray



58. "A mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." - Erich Fromm



59. "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - Henry Ward Beecher



60. "A Mother's love is exceptional and unique " - C. A. Lynch, Thanks, Mom



61. "If there is aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love." - Marchioness De Spadoro



62. "Mother's love is ever in its spring, mother's truth keeps constant youth." - Proverb



63. "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." - Princess Diana



64. "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honore de Balzac



65. "Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes." - Nicholas Gordon




66. "Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." - Barbara Kingsolver



67. "A mother's love is honest; she's never mean or rude." - Shakira Wilkerson



68. "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them." - Victor Hugo


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Missing Mom

69. "We don’t all get our mom, sometimes she has to go away. We do our best to remember her teachings and live as she would." - Julie Hebert, The One We Call Mom



70. "I miss you, my mother, my mother - but death will not linger too long." - Leila Mae Wilson



71. "To my mother in heaven, thank you for always loving me and guiding me. Even though you are no longer here with me I can still feel your love guiding me. You are always in my heart. I love you and miss you dearly." - Author Unknown




72. "Oh, the love of a mother, love which none can forget." - Victor Hugo



73. "An angel you were and now an angel you are, though our hearts heavy with sadness reach far. Your life was a blessing filled with so much care." - C. A. Lynch, An Angel



74. "Whenever I am missing you, I also remember how fortunate I was that you were in my life. I wouldn't trade those moments for the world." - Cindy Adkins



75. "My mother is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune." - Graycie Harmon



76. "Someday in the distance, we will find her again, and that day will be glorious and filled with zen." - Julie Hebert, The One We Call Mom


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