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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:

The bearing and the training of a child
Is woman's wisdom.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Princess (1847)

What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

Leonard Cohen Beautiful Losers (1966)

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Ursula K. Le Guin The Farthest Shore (1972)

Love is not a feeling to pass away,
Like the balmy breath of a summer day;
It is not — it cannot be — laid aside;
It is not a thing to forget or hide.

Charles Dickens Lucy's Song in The Village Coquettes (1836)

If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.

Bahá'u'lláh

Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!

José Martí Amor (1887)

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Kenneth Rexroth An Autobiographical Novel (1991)

When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world.

Rollo May Love and Will (1969)

"To fall for," "to be fallen for"—I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

Osamu Dazai

I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Giannina Braschi

What mad lover ever dy'd,
To gain a soft and gentle bride?
Or for a lady tender-hearted,
In purling streams or hemp departed?

Samuel Butler Hudibras, Part III (1678)

What is life, when wanting love?
Night without a morning;
Love's the cloudless summer sun,
Nature gay adorning.

Robert Burns

I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
I have lived and loved.

Friedrich Schiller

Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince (1943)

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.

Ovid

Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the snow weasels come.

Matt Groening

You're dressed in that dress, I like. Love is swinging in the air, tonight.

Justin Timberlake Suit & Tie (2013)

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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