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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:

‘I can see your reasons, my love. But won’t you get thirsty?’ — Inscription found beneath capstone of household well, Lakefront District, Darujhistan

Steven Erikson Toll the Hounds (2008)

Well, I'm proud of it. I was declared persona non grata not by the country but by a terrorist regime. But I know that Cubans love me and my music.

Gloria Estefan

I've always loved getting sold [on something]. That's true of all good salesmen. All good salesmen love to get taken in by a pitch.

Jerry Seinfeld Judd Apatow Interview (2014)

Love me little, love me long.

Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta (1589)

Then sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang:
“Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long!”

William Makepeace Thackeray Ballads (1855)

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant;
Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere,
Though still the less we knew of its intent.

William Morris The Earthly Paradise (1868)

I say to every young man thinking of getting married, marry into a family with five or more daughters ... One of them will always love you

Joe Biden

They stayed that way for a while because neither Denver nor Sethe knew how not to: how to stop and not love the look or feel of the lips that kept on kissing.

Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)

He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you choose — not to need permission for desire — well now, that was freedom.

Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)

The soul descends once more in bitter love
To accept the waking body

Richard Wilbur

I'm feelin' like Billy Bathgate, my rap style is past great, I love to fuck a bitch from the back and watch her ass shake

Big L

I got slugs for snitches, no love for bitches, puttin' thugs in ditches when my trigger finger itches

Big L

Late, late, I come to you, now death discloses
Love that in life was not to be our part:
On your low lying mound between the roses,
Sadly I cast my heart.

George William Russell

I love daal chawal. I am not a restaurant person. I enjoy home food a lot.

Rani Mukerji

I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't--and one of them is Radiohead.

Guy Berryman

Lord I love my man, tell the world I do
I love my man, tell the world I do
But when he mistreats me
Makes me feel so blue.

Billie Holiday

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Andrew Wiles

Our love is old, our lives are old,
And death shall come amain;
Should it come today, what man may say
We shall not live again?

Langdon Smith Evolution (1895)

Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,
I love you, I love you, — oh what have I
That I can give you in return —
Except my body after I die?

Sara Teasdale Flame and Shadow (1920)

I have retired to Nemours to work upon a novel called The Age for Love, and it is on this subject that I wished to consult you, my dear master.

Paul Bourget

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