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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 asked Rajiv to be frank. I had no love for office or power. I could walk out any time. I was like a sojourner in an inn.

Zail Singh

The people who Bitch about life the most are the people who secretly love bitching

Frances Bean Cobain

Love, just like passion, is anticipation, unlimited trust, wonderful madness, a living and disruptive fire.

Paolo Crepet

For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men.

Ivo Andrić The Bridge on the Drina (1945)

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Boris Yeltsin Interview on Russian television (2000)

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.

Yip Harburg It's Only a Paper Moon (1933)

When I was a lion, panther was my prey;
I caught everything which I hunted.
When I came to embrace tightly love for you,
A lame fox drove me from den.

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

O the people of faith, when you open inner eyes, you will see beauty of the Beloved, radiant everywhere. In every mirror you see Him. In every color of His manifestation you will notice fire of His love.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

The meaning of life is beauty and love.

Rudy Rucker The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2016)

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

Jack Kerouac Satori in Paris (1966)

I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

Alicia Witt

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

Maya Angelou

All hearts confess the saints elect,
Who, twain in faith, in love agree,
And melt not in an acid sect
The Christian pearl of charity!

John Greenleaf Whittier

It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious minds to quench it with their own.

Thomas Hardy Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)

As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.

Alfred de Musset

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love.
Love. Love for everyone.
Drift like a little boat on a wave.

Edie Brickell

For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing,
'Twould make me sing,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Donovan Catch The Wind (1965)

I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

I fell in love with money before I had any and it’s a myth that the best romances end in heartbreak.

Carole Morin

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

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