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Saturday, May 13, 2023

MOM / Mother Day Quotes

Quotes About Mother

  • . . . many in today's world are attempting to communicate that having children, being a wife and mother can never lead to fulfillment. This, of course, is in direct contradiction to the Scriptures and it runs counter to God's principles. - Gene Getz
  • A suburban mother's role is to deliver children - obstetrically once and by car forever after. - Peter De Vries.
  • A woman, who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God. - Helen Hunt Jackson.
  • All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys. -- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) Novelist and essayist
  • All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln
  • Children turn into people. They speak rationally if aloofly, lecture you on your manners, condescend to teach you about eclectic criticism, and inclined to get married. And there you are, left with all that learning you have so painfully accumulated in twenty-odd years and with no more progeny on whom to lavish it. - Phyllis McGinley
  • It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being. - Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Let France have good mothers and she will have good sons. - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • 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. -- Elizabeth Stone
  • Mothering is a very absorbing occupation when little people in a household multiply, and how well a woman handles those demands depends on her sense of personhood. -Gladys M. Hunt.
  • One of the easiest traps for a mother to fall into is that of over-caring for her family to the exclusion of outsiders. To take care of your family is, in itself, a good thing. But it falls far short of God's love, because it can quickly become an exclusive kind of love. - Eugenia Price.
  • She had listened to nothing, but mothers hear certain things without listening. -- Victor Hugo
  • Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. -- Bern Williams
  • The heart of a Mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you always find forgiveness. -- Honore de Balzac
  • The mother who listens to all the unfunny 'knock-knock' jokes and the vivid description of the student who threw up in the lunchroom is the same mother who will be listening as her teenager tells her about his classmates who are trying marijuana and going to motels. - Sandra Humphrey
  • The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It 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. - Erich Fromm
  • The phrase 'working mother' is redundant. -- Jane  Sellman
  • There are few jobs, if any, that carry as much significance as that of being a mother. - Dick Innes
  • What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin. Henry Ward Beecher.
  •  When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when he is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty he makes her young again. - Leon Blum
  • When we soberly face the demands of motherhood, we may well be driven to despair or evasion, nonetheless the creative urge is undeniably there. - Elaine Stedman
  • Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter. -- Billy Sunday
  • My mother is a walking miracle. --Leonardo DiCaprio
  • If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? --Milton Berle
  • The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. --Mignon McLaughlin
  • Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. --Billy Graham
  • Behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins. --MITCH ALBOM

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Exodus 20:12 (MSG) Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that GOD, your God, is giving you.
Proverbs 10:1 ESV - 1 The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 20:20 ESV - 20 If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Proverbs 23:22, 25 ESV - 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. ... 25 Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV - 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 31:1 ESV - 1 The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:
Psalm 127:3 ESV Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Ephesians 6:2 ESV “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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