Mother’s Day Quotes
Posted on May 2, 2016 by bob in Features
Americans have officially celebrated Mother’s Day for more than a hundred years, beginning in 1914 when President 
Woodrow Wilson formally set aside the second Sunday in May to honor and appreciate the unique role mothers play in our lives. This year the date for Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 8.
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind. – Michael Jordan
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? – Milton Berle
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote. – Condoleezza Rice
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln
There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. – Roseanne Barr
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. – Irish Proverb
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. – Maya Angelou
Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply will give us some protection forever. – J.K. Rowling (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched. – Barack Obama
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. — Chinese Proverb
I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. — Mitch Albom, (from For One More Day)
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. — William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. — Tina Fey
