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| My mother with my brother Michael and I, circa 1969 |
Yesterday we celebrated Mother's Day by having dinner at my brother's house - my sister-in-law invited us all to her house to celebrate, and since they were providing food and dessert, we were so there! If you're a mother, I hope you have a great day today. If you're not, I hope you're as lucky as I am to be invited to spend the day with a group of wonderful women who dedicate their lives raising others.
In the meantime, enjoy mom-related quotes:
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If
love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
— STEVIE WONDER
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
— JEWISH PROVERB
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16
and only serve half.
— GRACIE ALLEN
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My mother is a walking miracle.
— LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
— SOPHOCLES
The most important thing a father can do for his children
is to love their mother.
— THEODORE HESBURGH
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
— MILTON BERLE
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
— TENNEVA JORDAN
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs...
since the payment is pure love.
— MILDRED VERMONT
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once,
and by car forever after.
— PETER DE VRIES
Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
— UNKNOWN
All mothers are working mothers.
— UNKNOWN
A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.
— UNKNOWN
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
— EZEKIEL 16:4
Men are what their mothers made them.
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
— HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
— NANCY THAYER
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
— HONORE DE BALZAC
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
— LIN YUTANG
No matter how old a mother is,
she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
— FLORIDA SCOTTMAXWELL
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother
always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
— SOPHIA LOREN
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
— SPANISH PROVERB
Mother that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
— T. DEWITT TALMAGE
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
— OPRAH WINFREY
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
— ROBERT BROWNING
Kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
— BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
— JODI PICOULT
The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.
— JANE SELLMAN
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
— PRINCESS DIANA
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.
— STEPHEN KING
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
— MICHAEL JORDAN
It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
— DOROTHY, THE GOLDEN GIRLS
You sacrificed for us. You're the real MVP.
— KEVIN DURANT, AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
— TINA FEY
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion.
These are the things my mom taught me.
— LADY GAGA
As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'
— CINDY CRAWFORD
[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.
— LUPITA NYONG'O
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.'
— JENNIFER GARNER
She drove me to ballet class…and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.
— ELISABETH MOSS
[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives,
whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.
— KATE HUDSON
My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime
anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.
— TIM MCGRAW
If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.
— MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL
I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her.
She was the love of my life.
— MINDY KALING
My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.
— EMMA STONE
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective.
Everything else just disappears.
— KATE WINSLET
[When] you're dying laughing because your threeyearold made a fart joke, it
doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
— GWYNETH PALTROW
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition.
— MARTHA STEWART
[Motherhood is] heartexploding, blissful hysteria.
— OLIVIA WILDE
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that
everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
— MARK TWAIN
It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
My mom says some days are like that.
— JUDIT VIORST, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force.
It's huge and scary it's an act of infinite optimism.
— GILDA RADNER
She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great but how to laugh through it.
— LIZA MINELLIE
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
— HENRY WARD BEECHER
Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.
— MAXIM GORKY
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
— MARTINA HINGIS
And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.
— UNKNOWN
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
— ERMA BOMBECK
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
— AMY SEDARIS, I LIKE YOU: HOSPITALITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them,
especially when they least deserve to be loved.
— KATE SAMPERI
Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.
— SHANNON L. ALDER
Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of
view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless startovers. Heaven knows, no one else will.
— RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.
— M.B. ANTEVASIN
My sister taught me everything I really need to know,
and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
— LINDA SUNSHINE
There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.
— SALEEM SHARMA
In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
— RANDY SUSAN MEYERS, THE MURDERER'S DAUGHTERS
I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.
— LANCE CONRAD, THE PRICE OF CREATION
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
— AGATHA CHRISTIE
A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.
— ERIN KELLY, THE BURNING AIR
Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
— MABEL HALE
But behind all your stories is always your mother's story,
because hers is where yours begins.
— MITCH ALBOM, FOR ONE MORE DAY
My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?
— BARRY DEUTSCH, HOW MIRKA MET A METEORITE
The daughter prays; the mother listens.
— AMANDA DOWNUM, THE DROWNING CITY
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
— MARGUERITE DURAS
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom,
because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?
— JOHN GREEN, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
— AMY TAN, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER
She rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
— LOUISA MAY ALCOT, JO'S BOYS
Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes.
Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.
— SHANNON L. ALDER
A child's hand in yours what tenderness and power it arouses.
You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
— MARJORIE HOLMES
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
— CHARLOTTE GRAY
Mother is only half a word.
— FRANK A. PORPORA
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2015: There Are Vacation Links In This One
2014: Remains In A Gold Field
2013: In The Shadow Of Al
2012: Uphill Semi-Battle
2011: Happy Mother’s Day!
2010: Back On The Road And Sleeping Like A Baby
2009: Peeping Ed Friday
2008: It’s Obvious Where My Sense Of Style Comes From
2007: End Of Season Snow
2006: At Least She Isn’t In The Cubicle Next To YOU
2005: Mother Lode
