Mother and Child 1953 by Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986
It is Mothering Sunday today, a special day which we remember and honour our Mothers.
Here are some quotes which best illustrate how our mothers shaped our past, present and most especially our future.
- Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
-Pearl S. Buck - The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
– Napoleon Bonaparte - The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~Honoré de Balzac - The best academy, a mother’s knee.
– James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) - Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
~Aristotle 😉 - My mother was the making of me. she was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for – someone I must not disappoint. the memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
– Thomas Edison - A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~Victor Hugo - Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
-Meryl Streep - “There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
– Stephen King - God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
– Jewish Proverb - I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.
– Immanuel KANT - If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Men are what their mothers made them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson - “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.”
– Bette Davis - “Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.”
– Jill Bennett - Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
~James Joyce - A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
– Victor Hugo - I know how to do anything – I’m a mom.
– Rosanne Barr - All I am I owe to my mother.
– George Washington