Is Mother's Day, a fundamental figure that signifies and has inspired and inspires to many writers. They have been made good and bad protagonists throughout the history of the literature. In prose and verse and all over the world. This is one selection of phrases, reflections and poems to celebrate that mothers are always there, in any way and even if they are not.
Mother's Day — Selected Phrases
- God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
- Mothers, in your hands you have the salvation of the world. Leo Tolstoy
- A mother is someone you ask for help when you get into trouble. Emily Dickinson
- Perhaps we torment no one like our mother; perhaps for no affection we sacrifice less: we are so sure of always possessing it, that it always forgives. Jacinto Benavente
- The world has no flower on earth, nor the sea in any such pearl bay, like a child in its mother's lap. Oscar Wilde
- Mothers always forgive: that is why they have come into the world. Alexander Dumas father
- The mothers of dead soldiers are judges of war. Bertolt Brecht
- Mother is the name of God on the lips and heart of a small child. William Makepeace Thackeray
- A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
- Mother: the most beautiful word pronounced by the human being. Khalil Gibran
- No language is capable of expressing the strength, beauty and heroism of a mother. Edwin Chapin
- There is only one beautiful child in the world and every mother has him. Josep Pla
- Children are the anchors that bind mothers to life. Sophocles
- The mother is the home where we come from, nature, the soil, the ocean; the father does not represent such a natural home. Erich Fromm
- Among all women only the mother represents the truth. Maurice Barres
- A mother's heart is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honoré de Balzac
- There is nothing like a mother's love for her children. Agatha Christie
- Life begins with getting up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot
- Motherhood: all love begins and ends there. Robert browning
- A mother's love is the veil of soft light between the heart and the heavenly father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A good mother is worth a hundred teachers. George Herbert
- I realized that when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. Mitch albom
- There is no such thing as the perfect mother, but there are a million ways to be a good mother. Jill churchill
- The world has no flower in any land, nor the sea in any such pearl bay, like a child in its mother's lap. Algernon Charles Swinburne
- A child never imagines that its mother is a woman. Andre Beaunier
- Only one thing in the world is more beautiful and better than the woman: the mother. Leopold Schefer
- He on whom his mother has never smiled will never know the smile of the gods either. Fernando Savater
- Mothers always have that secret charm of treating you like a child. Reinaldo Arenas
- Ask any guy about his mom while she's fucking and you can delay the big bang forever. Chuck Palahniuk
- Even if everyone throws stones at you, if your mother has your back, you're fine. Jojo Moyes
- We love the mother almost without knowing it; and we only perceive the full depth of the roots of this love at the moment of the last separation. Guy de Maupassant
- My voice is left alone in the night to tell you, oh mother, without saying it, how my heart will lessen its touch when your dream is less yours and more mine. Carlos Pellicer Chamber
- In the silence of a mother, love always wins over the truth. Because it is right there, in that muteness pregnant with fears and longings, where he will find the place where he allows himself to dream, the refuge in which to protect himself from the darkness, encourage a pruned childhood and accommodate the years taken away by a war. Peter Cervantes
- I think that always or almost always in childhood the mother represents madness. Our moms always remain the craziest, weirdest people we've ever met. Marguerite Duras
- Who of the women says
daring villains,
do not blame for an ungrateful
what we owe to a thousand good ones;
because telling the truth
that we owe them is true
the taste, when we live,
life, when we are born,
the pain, when they stop us,
when they breastfeed us,
honor, when they are chaste;
and if we want
serve God with them,
we still owe them heaven.
Lope de Vega