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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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...variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.

Vātsyāyana

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother. ... But next in rank and efficacy to that pure and holy source of moral influence, is that of the schoolmaster.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

Jean Guitton

But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951)

A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.

Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Gottfried Leibniz Closing sentence of the Preface to the general science (1677)

The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.

Theodore Gray

When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.

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

Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.

Sahl al-Tustari The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have — and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

Christopher Reeve

I know you do not make the laws but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do.

Angelina Grimké

I fell in love with this moon-face: Lavishly I am scattered on the honeymouth
I glanced at the black eye; being black I landed on the eyebrow.

Yunus Emre

You should learn that life, like love, is the only business whose balance sheet must end in the red: you have to give everything without calculating what you get in return.

Paolo Crepet

It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.

Nicole Kidman

What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?

Sylvia Plath Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices (1962)

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
I loved light ever, light in eye and brain —
No tapers mirrored in long palace floors,
Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles,
But just the common dusty wind-blown day
That roofs earth's millions.

Edith Wharton Vesalius in Zante (1564)

Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can’t. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don’t accept the concept of motherhood.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child — ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time, What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death. ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.

Richard Matheson

Everybody is born as a mother’s child. When a person does not respect life, but only uses death tolls (number of 228 massacre 20,000 victims) to measure how big a historical tragedy was, how then are we to conduct a dialogue with a person like this?

Su Tseng-chang Su Tseng-chang (2014)

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