Honouring the Mother in You - Famous Quotes

Although we honour our mothers on Mothers Day, the second Sunday in May in the USA, mothers everywhere occasionally enjoy a little inspiration to help fulfill their awesome role of motherhood.

Following are a few inspiring quotes. I hope you will feel that one or two inspire you!

1) My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington, U.S. President

2) Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3) The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac

4) 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

5) No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life. Author Unknown

6)Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Author Unknown

7) She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.-D H Lawrence

8) When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.-Nancy Friday

9) The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author Unknown

10) Who is it that loves me and will love me for ever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.-Thomas Carlyle

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Rijuta Tooker
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