Mother Day Poems Quotes

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.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

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

A mother’s love is like an island, In life’s ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.

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

In the Heaven’s above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘Mother.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o’ mine o mother o’ mine.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

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