Mother's Day Quotations

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
—Maya Angelou

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.
—Sydney Biddle Barrows

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
—James Joyce

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
—Toni Morrison

The best academy, a mother's knee.
—James Russell Lowell

My mother loved children—she would have given anything if I had been one.
—Groucho Marx

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
—Oscar Wilde

I really learned it all from mothers.
—Dr. Benjamin Spock

A boy's best friend is his mother.
—Joseph Stefano (from the Psycho screen play)

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
—William Ross Wallace

Good wombs have borne bad sons.
—William Shakespeare

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
—Spanish Proverb

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
—Meryl Streep

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
—Emily Dickinson

There is nothing like a mama-hug.
—Adabella Radici

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
—Jewish Proverb

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
—Oprah Winfrey