Best quotes for Mother's Day

    Miscellaneous Musings On Motherhood!     by Dan Gulley, Smithville, TN

Mother’s Day is not easy for everyone. For some, motherhood was unplanned, and came at a time that made life much more (financially) difficult. For others motherhood is simply biologically impossible. And some had mothers who acted dishonorably through neglect or abandonment or, God forbid, emotional and/or physical and sexual abuse.

And for some of those whose mothers have passed away, “Mother’s Day” can conjure up feelings of sadness and grief. Our hearts go out to all those whose memories of mother may bring more pain than pleasure. In spite of all that, and in spite of the fact modern culture seeks to diminish and dismiss the work of women as mothers, mothers continue to be a major formative force in the lives of multiple millions of people! Like the Energizer Bunny – motherhood takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’! It is good to give her a “mother’s day”!  When she performs by the specs God lays out in her job description in His word, there is simply no one else in our lives whose influence is quite the same! As one man said, “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.”

The Bible says about the virtuous women and mothers among us, “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her worth is far above rubies . . . .Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a  woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates” (Proverbs 31;10, 28, 30, 31).  Over the years I have run across many “sentence sermons” about mothers. Hope you enjoy these few miscellaneous statements about mothers!

* “All mothers are working mothers.”

 * From Dorothy on the TV show “The Golden Girls” – “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.”  

* Jill Churchill –  “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.”      * Erma Bombeck –  “Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.”

* Ambrose Bierce defines “sweater” as a “garment worn by a child when its mother is cold.”     
* James Russell Lowell –  “The best academy, a mother’s knee.”
*  One mother kangaroo to another – “I really dread those rainy days when the kids     can’t play outside.”

* A six-year-old told his pal:  “Mom’s in the hospital, and me and Daddy and Jimmy and the twins are here all alone.”

* Gracie Allen – “A woman came to ask the doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, ‘Thirty-five children is enough for any woman!’ ”      * Sarah H. Hupp

–  “ A mother’s lap is the best place from which to launch a life.”

* Roseanne – “If it’s five o’clock and the children are still alive, I’ve done

MY job.”

* A mother to her son - “If you fall out of a tree and break

both your legs, don’t come running to me.”

* Margaret Caulkin Banning – “She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.”

* Pearl Buck – “Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

* Milton Berle – “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?”

* Exodus 20:12a;   Ephesians 6:2a  –  “Honor your father and your  mother.”

* John 19:25a – “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother.”  Thank God for faithful mothers still on the job!

--Dan Gulley