Mother’s Day Quotes
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish Proverb
Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Unknown
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
Abraham Lincoln
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The History of Mother’s Day in the United States
The custom of honoring mothers goes back at least as far as 17th-century England, which celebrated (and still celebrates) Mothering Sunday.
Mother’s Day in the United States was first proclaimed in 1870 in Boston by Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation, and Howe called for it to be observed each year nationally in 1872. As originally envisioned, Howe’s “Mother’s Day” was a call for pacifism and disarmament by women.
Mother’s Day Poems
No One More Lovely
She walks in elegance whose heart
Is filled with beauty, like the spring
Her gentleness is but a part
Of all the joy her graces bring.
The things she taught me at her knee
Are honesty and faith and love,
No one is lovelier than she
Whose soul is joined with things above.
Charlotte Carpenter
Angels of God
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still gleams in their tresses;
His glory still gleams in their eyes.
Charles M. Dickinson
In All Honor
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is a Mother
What is a Mother
She’s someone who shares
In all of your problems,
Your joys and your cares-
Someone who gives you
Right from the start
The warmth and the loves
Of her motherly heart-
Someone who’s loyal
And helpful and dear
And seems to grow more so
As year follows year-
Life is much brighter
And happier, too
Because there are Mothers-
Mothers like you.
J. Kyler McManus
