Mother's Day Quotes — Themes

Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.

Sophocles

No matter where I go, you'll always be my mother.

Tarzan

A glowing pale egg rests in a nest of soft fibres inside a blue-grey ceramic bowl. — Original artwork

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

Khalil Gibran

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. Phaedra, fragment 612

Sophocles

Painterly small potted sapling draped with a translucent white veil against cream. — Original artwork

Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.

Young Charlie

Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

Eric Draven

Painterly wooden crib beneath a hanging mobile of moons, stars and other small shapes. — Original artwork

Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science.

Melinda M. Marshall

Painterly wooden toy horse on wheels with its side compartment open to reveal small bundled items. — Original artwork

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore De Balzac

A row of autumn leaves growing fainter from left to right on a brown background. — Original artwork

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore De Balzac

An oval cream relief of a mother and baby beside folded pink knitting and a small wind-up music box. — Original artwork

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face: it was so near to me, and her arms were round me, and she sang to me.

George Eliot

I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face: it was so near to me, and her arms were round me, and she sang to me.

George Eliot

An open book rests beside a crumpled gold wrapper with glowing sparks rising from it on a dark wooden surface. — Original artwork

You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a Mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillilan

It's the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today. On motherhood. Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession, introduction (1983).

Erma Bombeck

I’m going to see my mom. She’s a big mucky-muck in the county school system. She’s my hero. How do I explain her? She’s as respected as Mother Theresa, she’s as powerful as Stalin, and she’s as beautiful as Margaret Thatcher.

Leslie Knope

Painterly small baby shoes and a loose pink ribbon on rumpled dusty-rose fabric. — Original artwork

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.

Erma Bombeck