Mothers are the foundation of the family. They make sacrifices to put a smile on our face at any given moment. In honor of their unconditional love, these Mother's poems and quotes will surely remind all moms how much they are loved and appreciated
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quotes about Mother's Day:
1. "Mom, you have been the most influential person in my life. I appreciate all the sacrifices you made to raise me. Happy Mother's Day."
2. "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." -- Aristotle
3. "Thanks for everything that you have done for me, and all that you are still doing."
4. "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"
5. 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
6. "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother." -- Author Unknown
7. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -- Marcel Proust
8. "Happy Mother's Day! I couldn't have had a better mother than you."
9. "Without mothers, our society would be doomed. You are a great example of what it takes to keep the chaos organized."
10. "Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away." -- Dinah Craik
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11. "Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. "I love you mom, and am glad that God blessed me with such a caring mother. You went above and beyond the call of duty many times."
13. "Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children." -- Sam Levenson
14. "The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents." -- John J. Plomp
15. "Mom, you must have been hand-picked to be the right mom for me. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for you."
16. "This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love’s true instinct, back to thee!" -- Thomas Moore
17. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." -- Irish Proverb
18. "I love you and I love you being my mom. You have provided the guidance I needed throughout my life. Things just seem to get a little more complicated the older I get. Thanks for all your support. Happy Mother's Day!"
19. "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
20. "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
21. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." -- William Makepeace Thackeray
22. "Mom you are one of a kind, and I am glad I get to have you as my mom. I have learned much and felt loved by you."
23. "You have been the most supportive and generous person I have ever known. Thanks for having a huge heart and loving me."
24. "On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You’re my mother, I would have no other!" -- Forest Houtenschil
25. "If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam." -- Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
26. "Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." -- Author Unknown
27. "A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love." -- Author Unknown
28. "Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries." -- T. DeWitt Talmage
29. "Mom, thanks for spending so much time helping me when I need help. You do so many things I can't begin to list them."
30. "Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand." -- Helen Hunt Jackson
31. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." -- Irish Proverb
32. "Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart." -- Author Unknown
33. "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." -- Oprah Winfrey
34. "You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." -- William D. Tammeus
35. "Mom, You have all the qualities that make a great mother, and your hard work makes you an even greater mom."
36. "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories." -- John Wilmot
37. "A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go." -- Author Unknown
38. "Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill." -- John Erskine
39. "Who fed me from her gentle breast And hushed me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother." -- Ann Taylor
40. "I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." -- Abraham Lincoln
41. "A mother's heart is a patchwork of love." -- Author Unknown
42. "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
43. "You fill so many roles as a mom. Sometimes you are chef, sometimes a maid, sometimes a mentor, sometimes a nurse, sometimes a counselor, and you'll always be my mom."
44. "A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
45. "This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!" --Thomas Moore
46. "If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam." -- Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
47. "Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
48. "Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love." -- Mildred B. Vermont
49. "I'm wishing you a very happy Mother's Day. You have earned it."
50. "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
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To My Mother by Robert Louis Stevenson
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You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.
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The Mother by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Here I lean over you, small son, sleeping
Warm in my arms,
And I con to my heart all your dew-fresh charms,
As you lie close, close in my hungry hold . . .
Your hair like a miser's dream of gold,
And the white rose of your face far fairer,
Finer, and rarer
Than all the flowers in the young year's keeping;
Over lips half parted your low breath creeping
Is sweeter than violets in April grasses;
Though your eyes are fast shut I can see their blue,
Splendid and soft as starshine in heaven,
With all the joyance and wisdom given
From the many souls who have stanchly striven
Through the dead years to be strong and true.
Those fine little feet in my worn hands holden . . .
Where will they tread ?
Valleys of shadow or heights dawn-red?
And those silken fingers, O, wee, white son,
What valorous deeds shall by them be done
In the future that yet so distant is seeming
To my fond dreaming?
What words all so musical and golden
With starry truth and poesy olden
Shall those lips speak in the years on-coming?
O, child of mine, with waxen brow,
Surely your words of that dim to-morrow
Rapture and power and grace must borrow
From the poignant love and holy sorrow
Of the heart that shrines and cradles you now!
Some bitter day you will love another,
To her will bear
Love-gifts and woo her . . . then must I share
You and your tenderness! Now you are mine
From your feet to your hair so golden and fine,
And your crumpled finger-tips . . . mine completely,
Wholly and sweetly;
Mine with kisses deep to smother,
No one so near to you now as your mother!
Others may hear your words of beauty,
But your precious silence is mine alone;
Here in my arms I have enrolled you,
Away from the grasping world I fold you,
Flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone
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Child and mother by Eugene Field
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O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand,
And go where I ask you to wander,
I will lead you away to a beautiful land,--
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder.
We'll walk in a sweet posie-garden out there,
Where moonlight and starlight are streaming,
And the flowers and the birds are filling the air
With the fragrance and music of dreaming.
There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress,
No questions or cares to perplex you,
There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress,
Nor patching of stockings to vex you;
For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream
And sing you asleep when you're weary,
And no one shall know of our beautiful dream
But you and your own little dearie.
And when I am tired I'll nestle my head
In the bosom that's soothed me so often,
And the wide-awake stars shall sing, in my stead,
A song which our dreaming shall soften.
So, Mother-my-Love, let me take your dear hand,
And away through the starlight we'll wander,--
Away through the mist to the beautiful land,--
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder.
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If Nature smiles -- the Mother must by Emily Dickinson
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If Nature smiles -- the Mother must
I'm sure, at many a whim
Of Her eccentric Family --
Is She so much to blame?
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My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; I
am joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy.
Behold, the Marquis of Glee has attainted felicity; this city and
plain are filled with soldiers and drums and flags.
If I encounter a wolf, he becomes moonfaced Joseph; if I go
down into a well, it converts into a Garden of Eram.
He whose heart is as iron and stone out of miserliness is now
changed before me into a Hatem of the age in generosity and
bounty.
Dust becomes gold and pure silver in my hand; how then
should the temptation of gold and silver waylay me?
I have an idol such that, were his sweet scent scattered
abroad, even an idol of stone would receive life through joy.
Sorrow has died for joy in him of “may God bind your consolation”;
how should not such a sword strike the neck of sorrow?
By tyranny he seizes the soul of whom he desires; justices are
all slaves of such injustice and tyranny.
What is that mole on that face? Should it manifest itself, out
of desire for it forthwith maternal aunt would be estranged from
paternal [uncle].
I said, “If I am done and send my story, will you finish it and
expound it?” He answered, “Yes.”
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Thank You Mom For All You Do
Mother's Day, which celebrates mothers around the world as the name suggest, was first celebrated in 1908 by Anna Jarvis, who held a memorial for her mother. She began campaigning to make the day a recognized holiday in the United States and it wasn't until six years later in 1914 that her wish came true. Unfortunately, the holiday became commercialized by the 1920s, but it also became an international holiday. Make your Mother's Day extra special, write a meaninful card or note to ur mother:she will cherish them long after you have left the nest to fly to build ur own...each mother's day will make her remind her of ur little notes...u made her when u were her little one...n trust moi u will always feel like her little baby even when u have nurtured birdies of ur own....with her u will be nurtured like her little one fr lifetime....go make her feel like a super momma...
1. "Mom, you have been the most influential person in my life. I appreciate all the sacrifices you made to raise me. Happy Mother's Day."
2. "Thanks for everything that you have done for me, and all that you are still doing."
3. "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 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
4. "Happy Mother's Day! I couldn't have had a better mother than you."
5. "Without mothers, our society would be doomed. You are a great example of what it takes to keep the chaos organized."
6. "Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love." -- Mildred B. Vermont
7. "I love you mom, and am glad that God blessed me with such a caring mother. You went above and beyond the call of duty many times."
8. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." -- William Makepeace Thackeray
9. "Mom, you must have been hand-picked to be the right mom for me. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for you."
10. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." -- Irish Proverb
11. "I love you and I love you being my mom."
12. "You have provided the guidance I needed throughout my life. Things just seem to get a little more complicated the older I get. Thanks for all your support. Happy Mother's Day!"
13. "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
14. "Mom you are one of a kind, and I am glad I get to have you as my mom. I have learned much and felt loved by you."
15. "You have been the most supportive and generous person I have ever known. Thanks for having a huge heart and loving me."
16. "If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam." -- Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)
17. "Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." -- Author Unknown
18. "Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries." -- T. DeWitt Talmage
19. "Mom, thanks for spending so much time helping me when I need help. You do so many things I can't begin to list them."
20. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." -- Irish Proverb
21. "Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart." -- Author Unknown
22. "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." -- Oprah Winfrey
23. "Mom, You have all the qualities that make a great mother, and your hard work makes you an even greater mom."
24. "A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go." -- Author Unknown
25. "Who fed me from her gentle breast And hushed me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother." -- Ann Taylor
26. "A mother's heart is a patchwork of love." -- Author Unknown
27. "You fill so many roles as a mom. Sometimes you are chef, sometimes a maid, sometimes a mentor, sometimes a nurse, sometimes a counselor, and you'll always be my mom."
28. "This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!" --Thomas Moore
29. "Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. "I'm wishing you a very happy Mother's Day. You have earned it."
