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Happy Mother's Day!

Whether just starting on the journey of motherhood or many decades down the path—Patch honors Moms on their special day.


In honor of all moms on this Mother’s Day, I’ve gathered some quotes that will make you smile, nod, and perhaps laugh or get a tear in your eye. Happy Mother's Day.

  • Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.  -Linda Wooten
  • The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.  -Honoré de Balzac
  • God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.  -Jewish Proverb
  • If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  -Robert Brault
  • All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.  -Abraham Lincoln
  • No one in the world can take the place of your mother.  Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right.  She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.  -Harry Truman
  • Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.  -Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Mirror, mirror on the wall,
    I am my mother after all.
    -Author Unknown
  • A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  -Peter De Vries
  • When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. -Erma Bombeck
  • There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. -Jill Churchill
  • No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. -Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. -Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

And just for good measure, my favorite poem about motherhood. It’s very old, with some antiquated phrasing, but I love the sentiment:

Two Temples
by Hattie Vose Hall

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A Builder builded a temple,
He wrought it with grace and skill;
Pillars and groins and arches
All fashioned to work his will.
Men said, as they saw its beauty,
“It shall never know decay;
Great is thy skill, O Builder!
Thy fame shall endure for aye.”

A Mother builded a temple
With loving and infinite care,
Planning each arch with patience,
Laying each stone with prayer.
None praised her unceasing efforts,
None knew of her wondrous plan,
For the temple the Mother builded
Was unseen by the eyes of man.

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Gone is the Builder’s temple,
Crumpled into the dust;
Low lies each stately pillar,
Food for consuming rust.
But the temple the Mother builded
Will last while ages roll,
For that beautiful unseen temple
Was a child’s immortal soul.

 

 

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