Quotes for Mother’s Day Cards

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Quotes for Mother’s Day Cards

1. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” -Author Unknown
2. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” -Oscar Wilde
3. “Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.” -Billy Graham
4. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” -Henry Ward Beecher
5. “No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.” -Sarah Josepha Hale
6. “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
7. “Men are what their mothers made them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” -Jewish Proverb
9. “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” -Mark Twain
10. “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
11. Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
12. In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
13. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
14. If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi
15. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown
16. Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
17. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
18. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle
19. A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. ~Author Unknown
20. Don’t poets know it, Better than others? God can’t be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers. Sir Edwin Arnold
21. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Anonymous
22. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac
23. Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. Sam Levenson
24. 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
25. The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Beecher
26. Mother–that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. T Dewitt Talmage
27. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
28. Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
29. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

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