Quotes to inspire frazzled mothers

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone

1. There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother. ~ Sarah Josepha Hale
2. The story of a mother’s life: Trapped between a scream and a hug. ~ Cathy Guisewite
3. A daughter reminds you of all the things you had forgotten about being young. Good and bad. ~ Maeve O’Reilly
4. Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. ~ Judith Martin
5. Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. ~ Amy Heckerling
6. When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family. ~ Robert M. Maciver
7. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ~ Agatha Christie
8. Mothers are basically part of a scientific experiment to prove that sleep is not a crucial part of human life. ~ Unknown
9. . A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
10. I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine – she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~ Adabella Radici
11. God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~ Jewish Proverb
12. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~ Pearl S. Buck
13. She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
14. No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love. ~ Edwin Chapin

Quote of the Day:
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
--Julie Andrews