As we celebrate mothers today all around the country, I compiled some of the best quotes ever written about this beautiful gift that is motherhood. Being a mother is one of the biggest blessing we can have in life and we hope all mothers out there are being celebrated today---and everyday---as well as women who are not yet mothers but will surely be one day. Happy Mother’s Day to all and to many, many more!
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.
There is no way to be a perfect mother and a millions ways to be a good one.
Young Sibylle Eschapasse and her mother. Rene-Victor Eschapasse
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else disappears.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself, once for her child.
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
— Emily Dickinson
Motherhood has the greatest potential influence in human life.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
Sibylle Eschapasse and siblings. Rene-Victor Eschapasse
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
I will look after you and I will look anybody you say needs to be looked after, anyway you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Sibylle Eschapasse and her loving mother. Rene-Victor Eschapasse
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have one again seen our world through their eyes.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Being a mom isn't an easy job but it's definitely the best job anyone could ever ask for.
Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
Mothers holds their children's hands for a while, but their hearts forever.
All those clichés, the things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true and all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.
Sibylle Eschapasse and her mother Marie-Astrid Eschapasse in Central Park. Rene-Victor Eschapasse
Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you're the only person who knows what her heart sounds from the inside.
A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.
Love your mother, the most beautiful person on this earth. Our best critic, yet our strongest supporter.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
There is no friendship no love like that of a mother for her child.
Baby Sibylle Eschapasse with her mother in France. Rene-Victor Eschapasse
Sibylle Eschapasse is from Paris and now lives in Manhattan. She is a journalist and a contributing writer to various publications. Sibylle is also the author of a children’s book, “Argy Boy!: a New York Dog Tale.” She may be reached at [email protected]
