In honor of Mother’s Day, rather than post just one favorite quote, I thought I’d offer up a few. I hope you laugh, smile and get your heart warmed. Happy Mother’s Day.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won’t let me plug it in.
~ Henny Youngman
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
~ Jewish Proverb
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~ Peter De Vries
All mothers are working mothers.
~ Author Unknown
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
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.
~ Haim Ginott
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.
~ Marilyn Penland
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~ Author Unknown
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
~ Erma Bombeck
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