All the girls say they love me
all their mums say I'm lovely —
ever since I lived in the clouds.
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.
I do love I know not what,
Sometimes this and sometimes that.
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.
I don't know why
I love you like I do
I don't know why, but I do.
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.
Look out upon the stars, my love,
And shame them with thine eyes.