Mother's Day Quotes

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

Mother Teresa

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

"There are two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings."

Hodding Carter

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

Kahlil Gibran

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Kahlil Gibran

"The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind."

Maria Montessori

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

Peggy O'Mara

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

Robert Fulghum

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

Michael J. Fox

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

Desmond Tutu

"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."

Lee Iacocca

"Home is the nicest word there is."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

Jim Henson

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

Lady Bird Johnson

"Children learn what they live."

Dorothy Law Nolte

"Children are like wet cement: whatever falls on them makes an impression."

Haim Ginott

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

L. R. Knost

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock

"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting."

Brene Brown

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

Anne Frank