With Mother’s Day fast approaching, here are 13 of my favorite quotes about moms.
- A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
- Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its’ mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
- She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
- 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
- Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. – Unknown
- 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
- 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
- And remember that behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry. – Unknown
- A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school, you wouldn’t know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn’t feel like eating it anyway. – Anonymous
- It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. – Ann Landers
- There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. – Stacia Tauscher
- Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said. – Mae Maloo
This post was originally published on May 6, 2009.
I like 2 and 8 but they are all fun
I think we got our quotes from the same place 🙂
I love the last one!
Lovely quotes. Happy Mother's Day & Happy T13!
LOL! Love these quotes! Esp. #13! =) Happy Mother’s Day!
Wonderful list! I agree with all of it, but I laughed out loud, causing my children to look at me funny at #11
nice post for moms! happy mothers day!
my post is up and its for moms too!
Great quotes! 😀 LOVE IT!!
I find number 5 particularly true. I blogged on Mother’s Day too.
Amen.
Great quotes.
Those are all awesome quotes! I love them! Esp. the one about the pie – lol. So true!
Happy TT & Mother's Day!
I love these. Happy Mothers Day!
These are great!! So true about getting your kids to sleep, though. No matter how much you love them or how fun they are; that break is a much needed blessing!
I love #1 it is so true great qoutes
I love #4.
Great quotes! Thanks for collecting and sharing them.
These are super fun 🙂