Let’s face it. After a life spent dealing with our daily whims and struggles, moms deserve a little pampering from their kids. Whether it’s a fancy vacation to Hawaii or a new pair of slippers (see what better fits your wallet), mom deserves it all. Not everyone can say they have been blessed enough to enjoy the love of a good mother, that person who cherishes you despite all your flaws. If, like me, you’re among the lucky ones, Mother’s Day is the perfect occasion to honor the special bond shared with our moms, grandmothers, stepmoms, and mother figures.
While you think about the gift (sorry, we cannot help you with that), it is also nice to express in words how much your mother means to you. Below you can find some of our favorite great quotes about mothers that are perfect for Mother’s Day. Famous authors, writers, philosophers, celebrities, and even characters in movies have had their own way of expressing how much they appreciated the woman that made them the person they are. You can write down one of these quotes about motherhood in your message or use them for inspiration to create your own. Up to you!
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“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
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“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
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“Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.”
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“Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan
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“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.” — Erin Kelly
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“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
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“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner
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“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.”
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“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
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“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” — Linda Wooten
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“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother.”
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“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson
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“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.” — Shannon Alder
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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle
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“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.”
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“They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.” — M.B. Antevasin
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“To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.”
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“I realized why I was born and more than anything all of the things I want to pass onto my child, and the best way of doing that is not by preaching or telling her but showing her by example.” — Beyoncé
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“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
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“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
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