Mother’s Day Thoughts
It’s that time again; it’s finally here…Mother’s Day! Ah, we are such special people aren’t we? In my opinion there is no one more powerful and influential than a mother. Each of us with our own special style; what we have done, said and are is being refined and adjusted through the years but still bears a glimmer of our mark and of all who came before us. Now that’s powerful!
Our shoulders are broad and strong. We are blamed, admired and revered in fairy tales as both wicked and kind and we are the fodder for countless jokes; consequently a number of comedians likely owe their success to us. Indeed attempts to define our enigma can be seen from books to the physiologist’s couch and still our mystery remains.
This day always brings back the childhood memory of the “breakfast in bed” tradition for my mother. In fact I can still smell the bacon and recall with detail the bustle as my father and all of my siblings contributed to the breakfast effort and the tiny kitchen it occurred in. I remember the excitement as my Dad carried the final results on a tray with a little flower down the hall as we all followed to surprise my Mom with the annual feast. Right on cue she feigned surprise and delight while I am sure she wondered what she would find to clean up in her kitchen and the effort it took for her to stay in bed and listen as the commotion ensued! I also remember being scolded by the family to not eat Mom’s breakfast and my secret delight as I stayed behind, snuggled next to my mom as we shared her special treat! I thought I was so sneaky and yet, everyone really knew!
Memories, we all have them. And so it comes again. That time when we try to show our Mom’s our appreciation for all the years, good and bad, that we shared, what we bring with us today and what we have passed on to our own children.
I had such fun collecting what I feel are some of the BEST quotes and sayings about Moms. I hope you take a moment to read these and experience a sense of inspiration.
Take a seat and enjoy!
“Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions – requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs – there was no attention given to preparation for this office.”
–Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”
–Alice Walker
“It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved me.”
From “For Mother – A bouquet of Sentiments”
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
–Erma Bombeck
“What took me by surprise is the way I feel when her face lights up when I walk into a room because I am her world and she is mine. Being a mother is like taking your heart out of your chest and watching it walk around.”
–Author Unknown
“The greatest thing she’d learned over the years is that there’s no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.”
– Author Unknown
“When a child enters the world through you it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.”
–Jane Fonda
“Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”
–Danielle Steel
“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”
–Beverly Jones
“The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”
–James Fenton
“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”
– Toni Morrison
“The story of a mother’s life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.”
–Cathy Guisewite, “Like Mother, Like Daughter”
“Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.”
–Judith Martin
“People always talked about a mother’s uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.”
–Anne Tyler
“A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.”
–Marcelene Cox
“Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.”
–Mae Maloo
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”
–Aristotle
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.”
–Barbara Kingsolver
“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, Women and Beauty
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
–Author Unknown
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
– Diana, Princess of Wales
A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, “where mother is.”
— Keith L. Brooks
“A daughter reminds you of all the things you had forgotten about being young. Good and bad.”
–Maeve O’Reilly
“There is a point at which you aren’t as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.”
–Jamie Lee Curtis
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
–Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minnelli
“No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
A hundred years from now…it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”
–Kathy Davis
“Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”
–Natalia Ginzburg
“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
“If at first you don’t succeed, do it the way your mother told you to.”
— Author Unknown
“Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.”
–Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons
“What would men be without women? Scarce sir, mighty scarce.”
–Mark Twain
- According to the US Census Bureau there are 82.5 million mothers in the United States.
- Mother’s Day is widely reported as the peak day of the year for long distance telephone calls.
- Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year for many restaurants. (Try and get in one on Sunday!)
- Retailers report that Mother’s Day is the second highest gift-giving holiday in the United States (Second to Christmas).
I hope you enjoyed these thoughts and quotes offered by and about mothers throughout time. We are many and we are special. When Mother’s Day arrives take a moment to appreciate yourself and all the mothers in the world for the important caring work we do every day of every year.
Happy Mother’s Day
to you all
Deborah Hayes
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