History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Mother's Day Quotes
Most of what you will see here is about love in general, because the Mother page itself is short. The page is assembled from the pages on mothers, love and gratitude.
If you want quotes that are actually about mothers, the Mother page has fewer but more precise ones. For anything you plan to print or say out loud, check the source line and the label next to it.
“Love cannot be owed,” said the retreating shadow. “It can only be given.”
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so.
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Orlando, driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.