Best Mother’s Day Quotes {Mothering Sunday Quotes}

Mother’s Day quotes are wonderful for scrapbooking, greeting cards, and many Mother’s Day projects. In honor of the loving mothers around the world, here are my favorite Mother’s Day/Mothering Sunday quotes:

“Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My mother.

“Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.”
~Ann Taylor

“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

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

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

“Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.” Hosea Ballou

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” Henry Ward Beecher

“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

“A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.” Author Unknown

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

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” Washington Irving

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” Abraham Lincoln

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” Abraham Lincoln

“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

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” William Makepeace Thackeray

“A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” — Author Unknown

“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” Jewish Proverb

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” Rudyard Kipling

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.” Mildred B. Vermont

“OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.” From the comic strip The Family Circus by Bil Keane

“Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone

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

“Mothers Hold Their Children’s Hands” Word Art Freebie

“Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone

 

“The Decision to Have a Child” Word Art Freebie (without watermark)

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Mother’s Day can be a sad time for families who’ve lost a special mother or grandmother. Here’s a free printable poem that I hope can help:

“A Fallen Limb” Free Printable Poem {Memorial Poem}

Mother’s Day Posts from LivingMontessoriNow.com

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Happy Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday!

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