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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:

O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?

John Lyly

All this was to make us glad and merry in love.

Julian of Norwich

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1868)

He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.

Stephen King The Talisman (1984)

You still can't love a Jesus as much as you'd like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done — and you know it.

J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey (1961)

He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

Orson Scott Card Homebody (1998)

Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

Orson Scott Card Enchantment (1999)

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one
who will give the air
from his failing lungs
for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Maya Angelou I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I?
When love becomes vast love becomes wordless.
And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.

Kahlil Gibran Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

And still to love, though prest with ill,
In wintry age to feel no chill,
With me is to be lovely still,
My Mary!

William Cowper

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

Robert Anton Wilson

If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to.
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you.

Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man (1988)

I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it...and he's always on time.

Mitch Hedberg

"Get on Your Feet" is really my motto. I look always forward. I look ahead. That's why I choose to record that song, because I really love the message.

Gloria Estefan

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you...we give everything.

William Kapell

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

Leo Buscaglia A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

THERE is a passage of Holy Writ that exhorts us that if there be any good things, such as love, virtue, truth, and so on, we ought to think on these things.

Frank Crane Everyday Wisdom (1927)

He (Spike) probably fell in love with Buffy when he first saw her, but didn't admit it to himself because he was already in love with Dru...

James Marsters

We have known so much & shared & lost so much together—Even if it isn’t the way you wish now—I hope that bond of love and pain will never be cut.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short.

Seneca the Younger

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