Mother's Day Quotes
Here are some quotes I compiled about Mothers and Mother's Day:
- "The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant---and let the air out of the tires." ---Dorothy Parker
- "No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."---Florida Scott-Maxwell
- "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
- "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun'. We might not land on the sun, but at least we got off of the ground."--- Zora Neale Hurston
- "At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent."---Golda Meir
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- "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."---Elizabeth Stone
- "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you even quicker if they didn't."---Barbara Kingsolver
- "Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster too." ---Lionel Kauffman
- "If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family."---Lawrence Houseman
- "A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone else in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother---and then eat most of it yourself. A petty sentiment"---Anna Jarvis
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