Mother’s Day quotes provide sons and daughters with great content ideas for cards, letters, texts, Facebook posts, and more.
To express your feelings about your mom, it might help to see how others have described their first teacher and confidant. Pick one of the quotations below to go with her Mother’s Day gift.
We have a lot of great quotations to review, but if you’re in a hurry, we’ve identified our Top 10 Best with the help of our expert panel. Please read on.
Best Mother’s Day Quotes: Top Ten
1.) God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling
2.) All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
3.) It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mahatma Gandhi
4.) Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.
Susan Gale
5.) To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou
6.) You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.
Kevin Durant (Addressing his mother after receiving the NBA’s MVP award.)
7.) Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
8.) Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
9.) Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Lisa Alther
10.) A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sweet Mother’s Day Quotes
11.) A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac
12.) A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
13.) I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.
Chelsea Clinton
14.) With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
Isadora Duncan
Good Mother’s Day Quotes
15.) Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
George Eliot
16.) Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
Tina Fey
17.) My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
Mark Twain
18.) I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
19.) Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
Sophocles
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TV Moms — Mother’s Day Quotes
20.) If you can raise three kids who can knock out and hog-tie a perfect stranger, you must be doing something right.
Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
21.) We are very fortunate to have the children, Cliff. Otherwise, we would never know the joy of leaving them at home.
Clari Huxtable, The Cosby Show
22.) Well, the big deal is that it’s part of my job to make sure you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.
Tami Taylor, Friday Night Lights
23.) If you’re going to throw your life away, he’d better have a motorcycle.
Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
24.) Honey, I’m your mother. It’s my job to strong-arm people into seeing how amazing you are.
Beverly Goldberg, The Goldbergs
25.) If you know what you did was wrong, that’s more important than any punishment.
Carol Brady, The Brady Bunch
26.) Ward Cleaver: Let’s face it, June, Wally, and Eddie have been friends for four or five years now – nothing’s ever really happened.
But Eddie has that look about him that makes you think something’s always about to happen.
June Cleaver
Funny Mother’s Day Quotes
27.) If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?Milton Berle
28.) When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck
29.) Motherhood: Inspired by love; powered by wine.
Unknown
30.) The phrase “working mother” is redundant.
Jane Sellman
31.) And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.
Unknown
32.) An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priests.
Unknown
33.) Silence is golden. Until you have children. Then silence is just worrisome.
Unknown
34.) Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.
Unknown
35.) It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
Unknown
Inspirational Mother’s Day Quotes
36.) We are born of love; love is our mother.
Rumi
37.) But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.
Mitch Albom
38.) Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.
Unknown
39.) Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.
Reed Markham
40.) She rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
Louise May Alcott
41.) A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Unknown
42.) Mothers possess power beyond that of a king on his throne.
Mabel Hale
43.) We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.
Laura Harm
44.) One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Happy Mother’s Day Quotations
45.) Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
Robert A. Heinlein
46.) Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
47.) A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.
Unknown
48.) The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elaine Heffner
49.) A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
50.) If mothers were flowers, I’d pick you.
Unknown
51.) It’s not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.
Unknown
52.) A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
Unknown
53.) Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired; it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm
Inspiring Mother’s Day Quotes
54.) A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
55.) A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish Proverb
56.) There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb
57.) Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.
Unknown
58.) Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
Beverly Jones
59.) Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson
60.) My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed on that I base my life, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.
Michael Jordan
For Friends
61.) Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
62.) Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
63.) Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.
Cheryl Lacey Donovan
64.) The love and kindness you carry in your heart make you a one-of-a-kind mother and a beloved friend.
Unknown
65.) A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan
66.) Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.
James Joyce
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67.) Once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer.
Jodi Picoult
68.) Always my mom, forever my friend.
Unknown
69.) There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
Unknown
70.) The phrase “working mother” is redundant.
Jane Sellman
71.) A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
Unknown
72.) Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
Unknown
73.) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde
74.) As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine life without her.
Kristin Hannah from Summer Island
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Short Mother’s Day Quotes
75.) A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
Amy Tan
76.) The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.
Henry Ward Beecher
77.) Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Unknown
78.) I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.
Lance Conrad
79.) My mother is a walking miracle.
Leonardo DiCaprio
80.) A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.
Debasish Mridha
Mother’s Day Quotes From Daughter
81.) I smile because I’m your daughter; I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.
Unknown
82.) A daughter may outgrow your lap but will never outgrow your heart.
Unknown
83.) When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
84.) Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
85.) The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years, she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin
86.) Being a full-time mother is one of the highest-salaried jobs — since the payment is pure love.
Mildred B. Vermont
87.) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Oscar Wilde
88.) I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. (And) I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.
Maya Angelou
89.) Nothing is really lost, till your mom can’t find it.
Unknown
90.) A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make learning unnecessary.
Unknown
91.) You’re the mom everyone wishes they had.
Unknown
92.) A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
Unknown
For Grandmothers
93.) Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.
Unknown
94.) As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.
Prince William
95.) Sometimes, our grandmas and grandpas are like grand angels.
Lexie Saige
96.) Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
Unknown
97.) Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Welsh Proverb
98.) It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.
Christopher Morley
99.) Grandmothers are voices of the past and role models of the present. Grandmothers open the doors to the future.
Unknown
100.) A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories. She remembers all of your accomplishments and forgets all of your mistakes.
Barbara Cage
101.) A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit of a teacher, and a little bit best friend.
Unknown
102.) Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
Janet Lanese
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Classic Mother’s Day Quotes
103.) Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
Unknown
104.) If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.
Italian Proverb
105.) Grandmother – a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
Unknown
106.) A garden of love grows in a grandmother’s heart.
Unknown
107.) Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley
108.) It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother.
Unknown
109.) There’s no place like home—except Grandma’s.
Unknown
110.) There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill
111.) When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Charley Benetto
112.) My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.
Lisa Leslie
113.) A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.
Princess Diana
Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes
114.) Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
115.) Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
116.) A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Cardinal Mermillod
117.) All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington
118.) Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.
Gilda Radner
119.) He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
120.) To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
Maya Angelou
121.) The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.
St. Therese of Lisieux
122.) The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James E. Faust
123.) Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.
Lady Gaga
Warmhearted Quotes
124.) Motherlove is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
125.) Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
126.) The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
127.) Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
128.) I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.
Mindy Kaling
129.) A mother is the truest friend we have; when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving
130.) No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism of a mother’s love.
Edwin Chapin
131.) My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
132.) I love you, Mom! Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love have guided me and gave me wings to fly.
Sarah Malin
Notable Mother’s Day Quotes
133.) Which one?
Ida Stover Eisenhower (Mother of Dwight Eisenhower, when asked if she was proud of her son)
134.) The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother — which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
Sydney J. Harris, The Progressive, May 1967
135.) Dear Mother: I’m all right. Stop worrying about me.
17-year-old Egyptian girl, papyrus letter 2000 BC at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ideas for Making Mom Feel Special Video
How do you make your mom feel special?
Mother’s Day is special because it’s the one day of the whole calendar year that we set aside to recognize the love we have for our mothers. How can you make this day feel special for your mother? Well, here are some ideas.
A.) Bring her flowers.
B.) Invite Mom out to dinner.
C.) Buy her a present — it could be a book, jewelry, clothing items, or something else you know she’ll like.
D.) Give her a spa day.
E.) Text her three reasons you love her for the week leading up to Mother’s Day.
F.) Write her a letter.
G.) Have a picnic lunch at the park with her.
H.) Bring her some groceries and dinner.
I.) Help her out with seasonal chores, e.g., raking.
J.) Create a special photo album for her of her grandchildren.
Use your imagination to help her have a wonderful day!
FAQS on Mother’s Day
Here are some frequently asked questions on the topic of Mother’s Day.
Synonyms for mother include mom, ma, mama (also spelled mamma or momma), mammy, mater (used mostly in Great Britain), mommy, and supermom.
Three favorite quotes for mothers include Rudyard Kipling’s, “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” Maya Angelou’s “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” And, lastly, Robert Browning’s “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Caring, giving, protective, nurturing, supportive, strong, loving, gracious, wise, guiding, hardworking, generous, inspirational, compassionate, beautiful, and understanding are words frequently used to describe a mother.
Mother’s Day is celebrated on Sunday, May 14, 2023, in the United States and many other countries, including Australia, Canada, China, and most of Europe.
In the UK, the Mother’s Day holiday was celebrated on March 19 in, 2023. The date in the UK is linked to Easter – a date that changes each year. In Mexico and many Latin American countries, mothers are celebrated on May 10 each year.
By Mike O’Halloran
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