Mother Quotes for Cards and Scrapbooks

"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".

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." -- Author:Cardinal Mermillod Submitted by: DKCM

A mother's arm's are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them

A mother's love is a special place where children always have a home.

A mother's love is like a cup of tea, they are always there to comfort you.

A wise, helpful mother remembers what a silly thing she was as a girl.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

As she bends and breaks for everyone else, she struggles not to lose herself...

Food, love, careers, and mothers; the four major guilt groups.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers

"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."

"He who slings mud generally loses ground." ...Adlai Stevenson "If you can't be kind, at least be vague." ...Judith Manners "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married." ...Katherine Hepburn "If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I'm cheap!" ...Delta Burke "It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." ...Shirley MacLaine "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ...Will Rogers "Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done." ...William Shakespeare "Opportunity is missed ...

If at first you don't succeed, do it like you mother told you.

"If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you".

If evolution really works how come mothers still only have two hands?

If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

If the theory of evolution really worked, why do mothers only have two hands?

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

Love is no excuse to be mean

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.

1 mother + 1 daughter = 2 best friends

A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother's love endures through all.

A father's goodness is higher than the mountains, a mother's goodness is deeper than the sea.

A garden blooms with a mother's love.

A good mother is like a quilt; she keeps her children warm and doesn't smother them.

A good mother makes a long journey seem shorter.

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.

A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever

A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.

A mother holds your hand for a while, but holds your heart forever.

A mother is an angel in disguise.

A mother is just not a mother, but a person who can be anyone in a split second.She can be a teacher,a nurse,but most of all someone who always protect you.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

A mother is not to be compared with another person-she is incomparable.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.

a mother is someone to take care of you and help you though life, help you when you don't know what to do, she guides you to the right decisions in love, someone who's there when others aren't,they love you A MOTHER IS A SPECIAL PERSON IN A LIFE AND TRY TO MAKE THE BEST LIFE FOR YOU THEY CAN

A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and love you just the same.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

A Mother Sees, A Mother Listens, A Mother Knows, A Mother is always learning....

A mother understands what a child does not say.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo

A mother's heart is a special place where children always have a home.

A mother's heart is a special place where children always have a home.

A mother's joy is knowing that her children have found true love.

A mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

A mother's love is tied with heartstrings.

A mother's love never ages.

A mother's love perceives no impossibilities.

A mothers children are portraits of herself

A mother’s love perceives no impossibilities

All i am or hope to be i owe to my angel mother.

All Mothers are working Mothers

All that i am i owe to my mother

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother.

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother.

All that I am, or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Be kind to the women for they make up half of the population...and are the mothers of the other half.

Be kind to women,for they make up half the population... and are the mothers of the other half.

Behind a great Mother is a Supportive and a loving FATHER. Behind a great WIFE is a Supportive and a loving HUSBAND.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Being a full time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

Being a mother is my greatest joy.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours it wanders wherever your children do.

But most of all, I remember Mama...

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. - Proverbs 31:30

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. ~ Sophocles

Classy women never show their toes in public. Real mothers go barefoot as often as they can. Classy women are always dressed up. Real mothers don't comb their hair before lunch on Saturday and shed their work clothes the moment they come through the door. Classy women never yell. Real mothers scream their heads off when their children are bleeding, playing in a football game, or about to do something they aren't supposed to do. Classy women read newspapers and ten-pound tomes on the New York Times best-seller list. Real mothers read the comics first thing in the morning and picture books at bedtime. During lunch, mothers read dog-eared books about how to discipline their childr...

El niño reconoce a la madre por la sonrisa

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Flowers have the sun, children have their mothers.

Flowers look up to the sun: Children look up to their Mothers.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest, and most lasting teacher he children have.

Give your children two things, one is roots, the other wings.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

God could not be everywhere, and so he made mothers.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers.

God could not be everywhere, so He created mothers.

God could not be everywhere, which is why he made mothers.

God's most precious work of art is the warmth and love of a mother's heart.

Good moms let you lick the beaters...great moms turn them off first.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

Home is where your mom is.

I cannot be with you every step of the way, but I can start you out on the right foot.

I conceived you in my mind before i formed you under my heart and released you into the world, and will have you my heart wen you venture off to mend it.

I never knew how much I loved you until I saw the way you loved our children ~

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity

I would be the ideal mother but I am too busy raising my kids.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

If I had a flower for each time I thought of my mother, I could walk in my garden forever.

If you have a great Mother,your kids will have a wonderful GrandMother!

If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart!

In mothering, if you do it right, you work yourself out of a job.

Infinite goodness has wide arms.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It is the wise mother who gives her child roots and wings.

It was from you that I first learned to think , to feel, to imagine, to believe.

It's so good to know that wherever you are, a Mom is with you in spirit and in love.

Just as a flower needs the sun, So does a child need their Mother.

M-O-T-H-E-R "M" is for the million things she gave me, "O" means only that she's growing old, "T" is for the tears she shed to save me, "H" is for her heart of purest gold; "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining, "R" means right, and right she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER," A word that means the world to me. -Howard Johnson

Make sure you got clean underwear, she always said, in case you get in an accident & I always figured that'd be the least of my worries, but now I'm older & I see there's a lot you can't control & some you can control & clean underwear is one of those you can. For the most part.

Making the decision to have a child --- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Moms are like a box of chocolates. Good thing I didn't get a nut.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

Mother is another name for love.

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there

Mothers and daughters become closer when daughters become mothers.

Mothers are angels in disguise!

Mothers are like buttons, they hold everything together

Mothers are simply angels without their wings.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Mothers hold their children hands for a while - their hearts forever.

My home is in my mother's eyes

My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune .

My Mom My mom is the kind of mom who tells me that she loves me each day. She has taught me to be kind to others and to be careful of what I say. No matter what the situation, she just seems to know exactly what to do. She has taught me to follow my dreams and to my heart be true. She helps me day-to-day and teaches me to always choose what’s right. She has taught me to be grateful and to say words of thanks at night. My mother is a gift to me from the heavens up above. Because in the heart of my mother, there’s a key to unconditional love.

My mother always said if you want something done right, do it yourself.

My mother could quietly walk into a room, never realizing she filled it with beauty and with laughter.

My mother is my example of what faith can do for a family.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

MY MUMMY MY FRIEND MOM ACTS LIKE A PILLAR OF STRENGTH AND A SHOULDER TO LEAN ON... SHE'S CARING AND SWEET AND A GOOD- TUCKER INNER... SHE THINKS YOU'RE AN ANGEL, WHATEVER YOU DO... 'CAUSE SHE IS LOVING AND WISE- AND A SPECIAL FRIEND,TOO!

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Nothing is so beautiful as a mother with her children gathered around her.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother! ~ Lee Yatang

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Of course I can do anything. I'm a mother.

Once you become a mother your the frame, not the picture...

Our Mother is the truest friend we have. When trials 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.

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.

See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers still softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

She is there always with me, for me, waiting for me and I feel her sitting besides me. In times of happy and sorrow......she is always supporting.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Sometimes laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities.

Talk to mom, she's probably been through this before

The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother,"

The blessings of a mothers heart will never know an end. When she has a daughter who's grown into a friend

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

The most important work we as mothers will ever do is at home with our kids.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

The mother-child relationship requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

The Only Difference Between the Love of a Stepmother and the Love of a Mother is the Pain of Childbirth

The only thing better than having you as my mother is that my children having you for a grandmother.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, & Heaven.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

There is nothing so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.

To a very special Mother. You gave me life. I give you my love, forever.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

To the world, you are one person but to one person, you are the world.

Trust me your just a ROOKIE when it comes to your mother...trust me I'm a Veteran!

Washing clothes, cleaning house chores everyday A taxi service, here and there Never time to play A tender heart and a listening ear Someone who always cares A helping hand with no complaints A Mother will be there

We Laugh, We Cry We Make Time Fly Best Friends we are, My Mom & I

Well behaved women rarely make history.

What took me by surprise is the way I feel when her face lights up when I walk into a room because I am her world and she is mine. Being a mother is like taking your heart out of your chest and watching it walk around.

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place and make it well? My mother.

You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.

You are the trip I did not take You are the pearls I cannot buy You are my blue Italian Lake You are my piece of foreign sky

You can't scare me...I have a 2 year old!

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.

Your Mother is always with you. She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street. She's the smell of certain foods you remember, flowers you pick and perfume that she wore. She's the cool hand on your brow when you're not feeling well. She's your breath in the air on a cold winter's day. She is the sound of the rain that lulls you to sleep, the colors of a rainbow. She is Christmas morning. Your Mother lives inside your laughter. She's crystallized in every teardrop. A mother shows every emotion .......... happiness, sadness, fear, jealousy, love, hate, anger, helplessness, excitement, joy, sorrow... and all the while, hoping and praying you will only know the good ...

Youth fades, love droops; the leave of friendship fall: A mother's secret love outlive them all.

~~ Why God Made Moms? ~~ Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions: Why did God make mothers? 1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is. 2. Mostly to clean the house. 3. To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? 1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us. 2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring. 3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts. What ingredients are mothers made of? 1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean. 2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use stri...