Mother’s Day Quotes: 15 inspirational things said about mum
updated the 11 June 2014 à 22:47Here are some heartwarming quotes to remind each and everyone one of us just how much we love our special woman, everyday of the year
As Mother’s Day draws ever closer, most of us are busy planning the perfect day for the best woman in our lives – hoping to pamper her and show her how much we appreciate her on this special day.
And in case you didn’t know, it was French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte who instated ‘La Fête des Mères’ be a celebration of all mothers every year in Spring. Turns out he loved and revered mothers just as much as we do and we have him to thank for this wonderful day.
To help remind you about the true meaning of this day, we have picked 15 of our favourite quotes about mothers. Not just for Mother’s Day, let these quotes inspire us to love and appreciate our mothers every day of the year.
“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
— Napoleon
“The Hand that rocks the cradle is the Hand that rules the world.”
— William Ross Wallace
“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
— Jodi Picoult
“A Mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
— Cardinal Mermillod
“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
― Joanne Harris (The Girl With No Shadow)
“Mother. The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
– Khalil Gibran
“A mother understands what a child does not say.”
— Anonymous
“A mother’s body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it’s own entreaties to body and soul.”
― Barbara Kingsolver
“My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.”
― Graycie Harmon
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray
“Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
― T. DeWitt Talmage
“By the time a daughter realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong.”
― Anonymous
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
— Kristin Hannah (Summer Island)
“Tear on your mothers eye, is as heavy as the ocean waters”
― Zybejta “Beta” Metani’ Marashi
“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, Women and Beauty
“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.”
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Diya-Maya Tsering Bhalla
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