Others often say it best.
Today, we offer them deserved opportunity.
1. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” — Honore de Balzac
2. “Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Unknown
3. “Men are what their mothers made them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
5. “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
6. “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
7. “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” — Irish proverb
8. “The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very much like their mothers.” — James Matthew Barrie
9. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
10. “As is the mother, so is her daughter.” — Ezekiel 16:4
11. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” — Henry Ward Beecher
12. “Making a decision to have a child, it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” — Elizabeth Stone
13. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” — Lin Yutang
14. “Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall. A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
15. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.” — Oscar Wilde
16. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” — Rajneesh
17. “The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men; from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
18. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — Abraham Lincoln
19. “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” — Jewish proverb
20. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs ... since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
21. “No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you ... life.” — Anonymous
22. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” — Sophia Loren
23. “Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.” — Gregory Nunn
24. “Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?” — Nancy Thayer
25. “Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. DeWitt Talmage
We can think of no better reasons to say today, “I love you, Mom — today, tomorrow and forever.”
Happy Mother’s Day!
