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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.

Random quote on Mother's Day

Most quoted on mother's day:

Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?

John Conington The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.

John the Evangelist

I will venture to claim that I have been an honest writer and a loyal Englishman. England has many worthier sons; but few who more dearly love her.

Robert Blatchford

If you're a lover, you've got to be a fighter, 'cause if you don't fight for your love, what kind of love do you have?

Keanu Reeves

I love when a crucial novel leaves a trace in my memory. In this, its ending plays a significant part—creating a wake effect that is never erased.

Maylis de Kerangal

I wanted to encourage local people to love the environment and the best way to do so was to lead by example. I tried hard.

Samuel Oton Sidin

Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

Austin Kleon Show Your Work! (2014)

I love what I am doing especially as it is impacting people. Genevieve changed my way of thinking from “what if I fail?” to “what if I succeed?”.

Betty Irabor

Love is the most important thing. Find someone to love and the future will always be bright.

Zura Karuhimbi Interview with Vice (2014)

But the people who do show love and who love what I do, those are the people who I work for, who I want to keep happy. You can’t worry about the haters.

Dej Loaf

How do we show our children our love? Each in our own way by a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

Love God with everything you have and everything you are, and love those around you as you love yourself. The rest is just detail.

Ingrid Andersen

Nigerians love a quick fix and that is where we get it wrong. We want to win the World Cup by speaking big grammar and not to work hard.

Emmanuel Amunike

I love to compete and run as fast as I can. It is road, time and me.

Joyce Chepkirui

I would like to spend more time with my family. I have been in love with football since I was eight years old and I feel honoured to have been on this journey.

Fatma Samoura

I personally would love to know that answer, even if my own views on the subject turn out to be completely wrong.

Nick Lane Nick Lane (2021)

The Virgin is not indifferent to a child who allows himself to be corrupted. Listen to her sweet motherly voice; she wants you to be happy, capable of loving.

Hugo Nicolás Barbaro

I realised that you don’t have to mind what people think or do as far as you are doing what you love and what you know how to do best.

Charity Adule

I love two flowers in particular, the hibiscus and the poppy, beautiful blooms that die very quickly. For me they reflect the beauty and transience of life.

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy

It is a joy to serve the Lord here in the Diocese of Charlotte. Remember that everything – all that we have and all that we do – is a gift from a loving God.

Peter Joseph Jugis

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