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Quotes For Happy Mother’s Day I
By peace | May 8, 2006
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
~Helen Hunt Jackson
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
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
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can’t be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ~Jean Kerr
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ~Sam Levenson
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. ~John J. Plomp
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word “collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. ~Fran Lebowitz, “Parental Guidance,” Social Studies, 1981
This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love’s true instinct, back to thee!
~Thomas Moore
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