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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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I like salmon. I love crab legs. I love top ramen. I love Coca Cola. I love Fiji water.

Blac Chyna

You either love it, or you hate it

Jourdan Dunn

I’m not going to tell you that I’ve never been loved before, but being loved the way that makes you feel completely satiated is a different thing

Niecy Nash-Betts

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Albert Einstein Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.

Aristotle Disputed

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi Attributed

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Albert Einstein Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart Disputed

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

Albert Einstein Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Robert Herrick Disputed

...three of life's most important areas: work, love, and taking responsibility.

Sigmund Freud Attributed

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God — he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

Albert Einstein Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine of Hippo Disputed

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss Misattributed

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perenninal, like the music of the spheres.

William Mackergo Taylor Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe Misattributed

Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.

Tibullus Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Delphine de Girardin Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)

What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.

Jackie DeShannon Misattributed What the World Needs Now is Love (1965)

We need not think alike to love alike.

Ferenc Dávid Misattributed

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