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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.

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Most quoted on mother's day:

Unconscionable Love,
To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!

Virgil Aeneid (-19)

I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.

James Thurber

What is love's perfection? To love our enemies, and to love them to the end that they may be our brothers.

Augustine of Hippo

I can love Germany and hate capitalism.

Joseph Goebbels

There are people who would never be in love had they not heard [others] speak of love

François de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity, you can't write.

Gloria Estefan

Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed.

Honoré de Balzac The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831)

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

Hesiod Theogony (-700)

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.

Eric Shinseki

I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are.

William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale (1936)

We believe in marriage for life, and deprecate all this loose, pestiferous talk in favor of easy divorce... Be not deceived — free love means free lust.

Lucy Stone

Do you know what happens to artists who fall in love with their models? They come to a bad end. The same applies to scientists.

Roger Zelazny Frost & Fire (1989)

Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

Camille Paglia Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

Thank you, o can opener, for this can which you are about to open. You are truly a beautiful can opener, and though I am not worthy of you, I love you.

Darby Conley

And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

Dave Matthews Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009)

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!

Stendhal La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839)

While over Alabama earth
These words are gently spoken:
Serve — and hate will die unborn.
Love — and chains are broken.

Langston Hughes

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

Jerome

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

Terrell Owens

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