Mother's Day Quotes

"No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love."
[Janette Oke]

"Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read,
and the last put aside in every child's library."
[C. Lenox Remond]

"A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary." 
[Dorothy Fisher]

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret hope
outlives them all."
[Oliver Wendell Holmes]

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
[N. Douglas]

"A mom's gift is always the best because it's wrapped in love and tied with heartstrings."
[Anonymous]

"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."
[Unknown]

"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]

"The deepest fountains of love are found at the cross and in a mother's heart."
[Unknown]

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]

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"There is no place for a mother to go to resign."
[The Church Mouse]

"The best thing parents can spend on their children is time, not money."
(Anonymous)

"All that I am my mother made me."
(John Quincy Adams)

"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)

FATHER'S DAY QUOTES

"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)

"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)

"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)

  "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)

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Last updated on:
01/31/2012