Mother's Day Quotes
"The best thing parents can spend on their
children is time, not money."
(Anonymous)
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
(N. Douglas)
"The things you can give to you children next to good habits, are good memories."
(Sydney J. Harris)
"The way to make your children miserable is to satisfy all their desires."
(Anonymous)
"Scotland, with her well-known reverence for motherhood, insists that an
ounce of mother is worth more than a pound of clergy." (H. H.
Birkins)
Honor your father and your mother, that your
days may be long upon the land which the
LORD your God is giving you." (Exodus
20:12)
"Just when a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother."
[The
Church Mouse]
"A good mother is the greatest blessing ever bestowed
on a family of children; and a godless, wicked, worldly mother is the
greatest
curse that ever blighted a home!"
(Sam Jones)
"You may have tangible
wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be - I had a mother who read to me.'
[Strickland Gillilan]
"What the child says, he has heard at
home." (African Proverb)
"I remember my
mother's prayer and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my
life." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise:
that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth."
[Ephesians
6:2, 3 NKJV]
"We only have One Mom, One Mommy, One
Mother in this World, One life. Don't wait for the Tomorrow's to tell Mom, you
love her." (Unknown)
"I think it must somewhere be written, that the virtues of mothers shall,
occasionally,
be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers." (Dickens)
"The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is
the grief of his mother... A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man
despises his mother." (Proverbs 10:1; 15:20 NKJV)
"Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers
venerable."
(Richter)
"Honor your father and your mother, that your
days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you." (Exodus
20:12)
"A rich child often sits in a poor
mother's lap. " (Danish Proverb)
"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of
our children. "
(Charles R. Swindoll)
"If you want your children to turn out
well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." (Abigail Van
Buren)
"My mother was the making of me." (Thomas Alva Edison)
"Don't worry that children
never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
(Robert Fulghum)
"Children will carry
in their character the subtle impressions of our marriage and home.
We are
determining the quality of future marriages by strengthening the quality of our
own."
(J. Allan Peterson)
"The
mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
(Henry
Ward Beecher)
"To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be
in their lives today." (Barbara Johnson)
"My mother
was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I
attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical
education I received from her."
(George Washington)
"No one is poor who
had a godly mother" (Abraham Lincoln)
During a Sunday School Class a small boy was told that it is God who
makes bad people good.
"I know," said the little boy, "but mothers help a lot,
too." (Milestones)
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of
friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." (Oliver Wendell
Holmes)
"Mother's
love grows by giving." (Charles Lamb)
"A little
girl, asked where her home was, replied, 'where mother is.'"
(Keith L. Brooks)
"The
mother love is like God's love; he loves us not because we are lovable, but
because it is His nature to love, and because we are His children." (Riney)
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of
friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." (Oliver Wendell
Holmes)
"A
man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the
longest." (Irish
Proverb)
"Never try to make your son or daughter another one of you; one is
enough."
(Arnold Glasow)
"A child like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."
(Frank Clark)
"There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing
each child in America with competent parents." (J. Edgar Hoover)
Last updated on:
05/17/2010
