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Mothers Day Quotes - Page 2

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Allsop (1836). “Letters, conversations, and recollections of S. T. Coleridge: in two volumes”, p.23

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct