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800 Best Happy Mother's Day Quotes: Thank You Mom (2023)

1. There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill


2. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning


3. “Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in, it is what God gave you time for.”


4. “Your sisters are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were.” —Betsy Cohen


5. “For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” ~ Gilbert Parker


6. Motherhood: Feeding them as a baby and then through most of their twenties.


7. Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher


8. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love” —Stevie Wonder


9. “Thank you for being the only Mother in the world who would love a crazy child like me.”


10. “A dog is like a person — he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.” — Andrew Vachss


11. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” —Robert Browning


12. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” ~ James Joyce


13. “Thank you for not telling my sisters that I’m your favorite.”


14. “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.”


15. Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson


16. “The bond between mother and son lasts a lifetime.”


17. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”


18. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm


19. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Meymillod


20. “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


21. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” – Lin Yutang


22. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto


23. “For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among 10 children and each child still have all her love.” – Unknown


24. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont


25. “She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman–you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun.


26. “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” – Kate Winslet


27. “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” — unknown


28. There Are No Rules In This House; I’m Not Like A Regular Mom, I’m A Cool Mom.” — Mrs. George From mean Girls


29. “Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special. ” —Catherine Pulsifer


30. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”


31. Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” – Taraji P. Henson


32. “The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kids didn’t finish.” — Carrie Underwood


33. “The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink.”


34. “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” —Arlene Benedict


35. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” —Cheryl Lacey Donovan


36. “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” ~ Emily Dickinson


37. “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson


38. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — unknown


39. Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.” —Julia Roberts


40. 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


41. “You instantly become less selfish. You can’t be the biggest person in the world anymore—they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.” ~ Keri Russell


42. A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge.


43. “To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.” - Author Unknown


44. “If I know what love is, it’s because of you.” – Hermann Hesse


45. “There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.”


46. A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana


47. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” ~ Ricki Lake


48. Once you're a mom, you're always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.. Taraji P. Henson


49. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.


50. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” ~ Robert A.


51. “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


52. “When you love what you have, you have everything you need.” – Unknown


53. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle


54. “Happy Mother’s Day!!! Thank you for everything you’ve done for me. It’s more than I can ever repay you!! I love You Mom”


55. “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


56. “Aunt; like a mom only cooler.” —Unknown


57. 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


58. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb


59. “The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant.” —Jane Sellman


60. “An older sister is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.” —Pam Brown


61. You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.” — Jennifer Garner


62. “Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.”


63. “I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.” —Andre Leon Talley


64. My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.” –Carly Fiorina


65. “The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother’s prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.”


66. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” ~ Susan Gale


67. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” ~ Lady Gaga


68. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~ William Makepeace Thackeray


69. A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” – Robert Brault


70. “Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together.” — unknown


71. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” — Saleem Sharma


72. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” — Elder M. Russell Ballard, Businessman


73. My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” — Buddy Hackett


74. “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson


75. “That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.’ She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.’”


76. “The bond, which is 9 months older than my birth cannot be broken by any other relation.” ~ Invajy


77. “Children are great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too.” — Lionel Kauffman


78. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” — Oscar Wilde


79. I didn't fully wrap my head around the fact that there would be a person at the end of it. I read endlessly about pregnancy and what to eat and what not to eat. And then I sort of prepared not at all for the actual baby.” — Ellie Kemper


80. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” —Mahatma Gandhi


81. Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes


82. “But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” — Mitch Albom, Author


83. “Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother.” —Unknown


84. “Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young.” — unknown


85. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”


86. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~ Victor Hugo


87. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale


88. “I realised when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” ― Mitch Albom


89. “I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.” – Terry Guillemets


90. “Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever. Happy Mother’s Day !!!” ~ Anonymous


91. I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” – Lance Conrad


92. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” —Barbara Kingsolver


93. “Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever. ” —Unknown


94. “There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”


95. When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Charley Benetto


96. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” — Elder M. Russel Ballard


97. Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” – Lisa Alther


98. A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”- Amy Tan


99. “If you feel things are not going right, remember your mother, you will get the inner strength.” ~ Invajy


100. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod


101. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” —Michael Jordan


102. My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” – Michael Jordan


103. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning


104. “My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.”


105. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” ~ Abraham Lincon


106. 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


107. “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” ~ Italian Proverb


108. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher


109. “There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.” —Unknown


110. “Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” —Mabel Hale


111. “‘I don’t think so mommy!’ is what my child said after, ‘Can you please pick up the popcorn you threw all over?” — Anna Faris


112. “Everything has changed, and yet, I’m more me than I’ve ever been.” – Iain Thomas


113. “No matter how much I say I love you, I always love you more than that.” – Unknown


114. “An aunt grows more treasured as time goes by.” —Unknown


115. “A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle indeed. Such an incredible blessing.”


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


117. “Because I feel that, in the Heavens above / The angels, whispering to one another, / Can find, among their burning terms of love / None so devotional as that of ‘Mother'” —Edgar Allen Poe


118. “A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge” — unknown


119. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark…to have been loved so deeply…will give us some protection forever.


120. “I believe in love at first sight because I’ve been loving my mother since I first opened my eyes.”


121. “I’m a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.” – Unknown


122. “To the world, you are a mother. To our family, you are the world.”


123. “All I am I owe to my mother.” — George Washington


124. “Don’t poets know it better than others? God can’t always be everywhere: and, so, invented mothers.” — Sir Edwin Arnold


125. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver


126. “A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving


127. The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” – Jessica Lange


128. Mother’s love is infinite. A child can’t outgrow it, and a mother can’t conceal it.” – Michael Bassey Johnson


129. “I look back on my childhood and thank the stars above. For everything you gave me, but mostly for your love.” — Wayne F. Winters


130. Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” – T. Dewitt Talmage


131. “Why don’t kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?” — Alyson Hannigan


132. There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” – Elder M. Russell Ballard


133. “All those clichés—those 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.”


134. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it was easy, father’s would do it.” —Dorothy, The Golden Girls


135. “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.


136. “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


137. “Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.”


138. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” – Spanish Proverb


139. “My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, ‘Happiness is your own responsibility.’ That’s probably what I quote from her and live by the most.” ~ Jennifer Garner


140. “The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.”


141. “Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” — Taraji P. Henson


142. My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” – Jodi Picoult


143. Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” – Marcy DeMaree


144. It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” – Mahatma Gandhi


145. “Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.


146. “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


147. “A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible” – Marion C. Garretty.


148. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling


149. Thank you for not telling my sisters that I’m your favorite.


150. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” ~ Robert Browning


151. “Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.”


152. “Sorry if I drove you crazy. I only did it because I love you!! Happy Mothers Day !!!”


153. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln


154. “To the world you’re one person. But to me you’re the world.”


155. ‘I don't think so mommy!’ is what my child said after, ‘Can you please pick up the popcorn you threw all over?’. — Anna Faris


156. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” — Leroy Brownlow


157. “Let me love you a little more before you’re not little anymore.” – Unknown


158. There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.” – Unknown


159. “A mother is a daughter’s best friend.”


160. “It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.” —Gina Barreca


161. “As my mother always said: ‘You’d rather have my smile lines that frown lines’” — Cindy Crawford


162. “I have so much of you in my heart.” —John Keats


163. “When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.”


164. I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.. – Phyllis Diller


165. “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” - Spanish Proverb


166. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher


167. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but of whose place no one else can take” —Cardinal Mermillod


168. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honoré de Balzac


169. When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.. – Erma Bombeck


170. “The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators. ” —Daryl Gregory


171. “I feel that in the heavens above, the angels whispering to one another can find among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of ‘mother.’”


172. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana


173. “I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.” ~ Andre Leon Talley


174. “If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.”


175. “To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world. Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


176. “Never gonna go a day without you / Fills me up just thinking about you / I’ll never go a day without my mama” —Boyz II Men


177. 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


178. “My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.” ~ Josh Hutcherson


179. There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – Sophie Kinsella


180. There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” — Sara Josepha Hale


181. “I finally understand / for a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There’s no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated” —Tupac Shakur


182. “A mother’s love endures through all.” — Washington Irving


183. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder


184. “You never understand life until it grows inside of you.” — Sandra C. Kassis


185. A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge


186. “Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.” — Bern Williams


187. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother” – Abraham Lincoln


188. “Teach your daughter to worry less about fitting into the glass slippers and more about shattering the glass ceilings.” — unknown


189. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” —Mildred B. Vermont


190. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” — Leroy Brownlow, Author


191. “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” ― Rudyard Kipling


192. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake


193. 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


194. Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.” – Mignon McLaughlin


195. “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” — Arlene Benedict


196. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” ~ Phyllis Diller


197. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi


198. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes


199. “Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special. ” ~ Catherine Pulsifer


200. “I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. Your heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.”


201. My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection.” –Michael Jackson


202. “There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and her son.”


203. “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, Writer


204. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” – Golden Girls


205. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Cheryl Lacey Donovan


206. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe


207. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod


208. Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.” —Unknown


209. My mother was my Role Model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie


210. “I love you every day. And now, I will miss you every day.” – Mitch Albom


211. “I always say if you aren’t yelling at your kids, you’re not spending enough time with them.” — Reese Witherspoon


212. “Personally, I’ve always known that I wanted to go back to work because I’m confident, and I’m certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I’m doing the things that I’m excited about and that I’m passionate about.”


213. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” — Lady Gaga


214. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” — unknown


215. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom


216. “A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”


217. If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” – Italian Proverb


218. “Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend.” — unknown


219. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


220. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo


221. 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


222. No one told me I would be coming home in diapers, too.. – Chrissy Teigen


223. Parenting is f**king hard.” – Adele


224. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning


225. “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


226. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” —Dorothy on The Golden Girls


227. “Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.” — Oprah Winfrey


228. “Raising a kid is part joy and part guerilla warfare.”


229. “I work hard so my pet can have a better life!” — Unknown


230. “You are far more precious than jewels.” —Proverbs


231. My favorite part about being a mom, I mean it’s so corny, but no matter how tired you are, it’s complete bliss. No matter what.” — Khloé Kardashian


232. “An aunt is always there for all the times when you need a second mom.” —Unknown


233. “May your coffee be stronger than your toddler.” – Unknown


234. “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” — Debasish Mridha


235. “In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” —Adrienne Rich


236. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.


237. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod


238. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.


239. “Being a single parent is twice the work, twice the stress and twice the tears but also twice the hugs, twice the love and twice the pride” – Unknown


240. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey


241. “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan


242. The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” – Lane Olinghouse


243. “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” —Maxim Grosky


244. “Aunt — a double blessing. You love like a parent and act like a friend.” — unknown


245. “If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” —Milton Berle


246. “Aunt: A cherished friend and personal cheerleader who will always see you through rose-colored glasses.” —Unknown


247. “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe


248. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” – James E. Faust


249. My Mother Used To Say: The Older You Get, The Better You Get. Unless You’re A Banana.” — Rose Nylund From golden Girls


250. “Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” — Barbara Kingsolver


251. There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” – Sara Josepha Hale


252. “Thank you for every hug, word of encouragement, and act of love you’ve given me. Wish you a very Happy Mothers Day!!!”


253. I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” -E.M. Forster


254. My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down, and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says,. Happiness is your own responsibility.” – Jennifer Garner


255. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” — George Eliot


256. Mom’s always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.” – Phil Jones


257. “When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom


258. “Like mother, like daughter. I wouldn’t want to be like anyone else.”


259. Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special.” – Catherine Pulsifer


260. “Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” ~ Erich Fromm


261. “If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your mum told you to from the start.” — Unknown


262. “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


263. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” — Chinese Proverb


264. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.


265. “An aunt is very special. She’s considerate and kind. She’s thoughtful of others and loved a lot each day throughout the year.” — unknown


266. “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


267. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” – Chinese Proverb


268. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.


269. “A mother is the person you can always call to see how long chicken lasts in the fridge.”


270. A mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving


271. “An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.” —Unknown


272. “That best academy, a mother’s knee.” ~ James Russell Lowell


273. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” — Marion C. Garretty


274. The world needs our mothers.” – Liya Kebede


275. “Motherhood: if you think my hands are full, you should see my heart.” – Unknown


276. A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” – Jamie McGuire


277. Everything I am, you helped me to be.” – Unknown


278. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” —Unknown


279. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” ~ Princess Diana


280. If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your mom told you to do it from the start.


281. When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Charley Benetto, For One More Day


282. “Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special talents and unique capacities.”


283. “I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.” – Chrissy Teigen


284. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” ~ Tina Fey


285. “It’s not easy being a mum. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” — Betty White


286. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” ~ Oprah Winfrey


287. I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” – Phyllis Diller


288. “There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.” ~ Taylor Swift


289. “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” — Sigmund Freud


290. “Mothers don’t sleep. They just worry with their eyes closed.” — unknown


291. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust


292. “You have my whole heart for my whole life.” – Unknown


293. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm


294. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.”


295. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont


296. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder


297. “To the world you are a Mother, but to your family you are the World.” – Unknown


298. Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.


299. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm


300. “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” —Marcy DeMaree


301. Mom, I Love You, Even Though I’ll Never Accept Your Friend Request.


302. The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” – Jane Sellman


303. “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” ~ Erma Bombeck


304. “It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside you. There is no bigger gift.” — Beyonce


305. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.”


306. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” ~ Jessica Lange


307. The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” –Henry Ward Beecher


308. “First my mother, forever my friend.”


309. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” — Josh Billings


310. In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” — Adrienne Rich


311. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” ~ George Eliot


312. There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill


313. Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious.


314. Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother.” – Unknown


315. “Home is where your mom is.” – Unknown


316. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo


317. “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” — Anatole France


318. 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


319. “Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love Happy Mother’s Day !!!” ~ Anonymous


320. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” —Robert A. Heinlein


321. “In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” —Randy Susan Meyers


322. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” — Jessica Lange


323. “Great sisters get promoted to aunt.” —Unknown


324. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin


325. Honey, I’m Your Mother. It’s My Job To Strong-arm People Into Seeing How Amazing You Are.” — Beverly Goldberg From the Goldbergs


326. “A mother’s love is unconditional, her temper is another story.”


327. “Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” — Ambrose Bierce


328. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.


329. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” —Lin Yutang


330. “If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning.” — unknown


331. “By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she’s wrong.” — unknown


332. “I’m proud of many things in life but nothing beats being a mother.” – Unknown


333. “When life gets hard and you feel all alone, remember you mean the world to somebody, and that somebody calls you mom.”


334. Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.” -Paul P. Harris


335. “I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I’m feelin’ let it shine / I’m feelin’ take y’all back to them better times/ I’m feelin’ talk about my mama if y’all don’t mind” —Kanye West


336. “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” —Robert Brault


337. No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” – Edwin Chapin


338. “A mother and daughter’s love is never separated.” – Viola Shipman


339. Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” – Unknown


340. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown


341. When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” – Mitch Albom


342. Motherhood. It takes patience, humor and a lot of wet towelettes.


343. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” – Unknown


344. “Right from the start, you were the one who nurtured me, prayed over me, worried about me, guided me and supported me in every pursuit. Thank you for being there every day with just the love I needed.”


345. “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” — Jane Sellman


346. “To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident – it is to have a soulmate for life.” —Victoria Secunda


347. “If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” —Italian Proverb


348. “Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?” — John Steinbeck


349. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes


350. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” — Edwin Chapin


351. In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” – Randy Susan Meyers


352. “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale


353. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown


354. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” ~ Jodi Picoult


355. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her.


356. The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word ‘Mother’, and the most beautiful call is the call of ‘My Mother’.” – Kahlil Gibran


357. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” – Oprah Winfrey


358. There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.” — Kate Winslet


359. A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie


360. Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” – Unknown


361. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” —Lance Conrad


362. “Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.” —Martha Stewart


363. Every day I wake up and think: How on Earth did I become this much like my mother?


364. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.” — Milan Kundera


365. There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” – Saleem Sharma


366. “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, Actress


367. The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” – Henry Ward Beecher


368. “A child’s first teacher is its mother.” ~ Peng Liyuan


369. “Aunt ― a double blessing. You love like a parent and act like a friend.” —Unknown


370. “A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ” —Isadora James


371. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.


372. “What greater gift than the love of a cat.” — Charles Dickens


373. “It’s so nice to come home and have solitude with me and my daughter.” — Mindy Kaling


374. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner


375. No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” – Edwin Hubbel Chapin


376. 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


377. “My daughter introduced me to myself.” – Beyoncé Knowles


378. A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” – Amy Tan


379. “Everyone thinks they have the best dog and none of them are wrong.” — W.R. Purche


380. “You are a gift from God a friend that I can count on and a wonderful model of a mother.” —Unknown


381. “Don’t poets know it better than others? God can’t always be everywhere: and so, invented mothers.” — Sir Edwin Arnold, Poet


382. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” ~ Rumi


383. “If being a crazy dog mum is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.” — Unknown


384. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” —The Golden Girls


385. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.” — Rumi


386. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust


387. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” — Honoré de Balzac


388. “Everything I am, you helped me to be.” —Unknown


389. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher


390. “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” — Henry Ward Beecher


391. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma


392. “Moms give us the blessing of belonging.” ~ Megan Haave


393. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” ~ Lisa Leslie


394. “Mother and daughter from the start. Best friends forever from the heart.”


395. I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.” – Andre Leon Talley


396. Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying, ‘Da-da’ first.. – Mignon McLaughlin


397. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” — Kahil Gibran


398. “The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.” —Cali Rae Turner


399. “My mother is a walking miracle.


400. “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


401. To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” – Arlene Benedict


402. “Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.”


403. “I’ve conquered a lot of things … blood clots in my lungs — twice … knee and foot surgeries … winning Grand Slams being down to match point … to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller!” — Serena Williams


404. “I don’t know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It is such a beautiful experience. I so strongly recommend it. It’s bliss, love, and fulfillment of another level.”


405. “It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” — John Grogan


406. My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” – Jodi Picoult


407. Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” – Kahil Gibran


408. “We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” —Laura Stavoe Harm


409. “My mom is a genius, and not just because she thinks I’m one.”


410. The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother. – St. Therese of Lisieux


411. “A sleeping baby is the new happy hour.” – Unknown


412. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”


413. Mothers are the necessity of invention.” –Bill Watterson


414. “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother” – Unknown


415. “A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge


416. “I don’t think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.” ~ Naomi Watts


417. There is nothing as powerful as a mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s soul.” – Unknown


418. “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” —Edwin Elliot


419. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill


420. Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” – Linda Wooten


421. “Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease” —Lisa Alther


422. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot


423. “She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.” ~ Liza Minnelli


424. “Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.” ~ Louisa May Alcott


425. It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it.” – The Golden Girls


426. Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm


427. “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” — St. Therese of Lisieux, Saint


428. A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.” – Proverbs


429. “Dogs do speak but only to those who know how to listen.” — Orhan Pamuk


430. “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; and 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


431. “I smile because you’re my mother. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.”


432. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” — Oscar Wilde


433. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” ~ Mahatma Gandhi


434. “It is never easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” — Betty White


435. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ~ Honoré de Balzac


436. “Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.” ~ Martha Stewart


437. Maybe it’s just a daughter’s job to piss off her mother.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Diary


438. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” — Jewish Proverb


439. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner


440. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” – Jessica Lange


441. “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


442. “My mother is everything to me. She’s my anchor, she’s the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.” ~ Demi Lovato


443. Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we've set aside enough money to pay for our kids' therapy.” — Michelle Pfeiffer


444. Mom: I love you and your super long voicemails.


445. “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” —Chinese Proverb


446. “Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” —Unknown


447. Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” — Nia Vardalos


448. “Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, and filling the emptiness we didn’t even know we had.” — Thom Jones


449. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” – Linda Wooten


450. 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


451. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” ~ Booker T. Washington


452. “Men are what their mothers made them.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


453. “Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.”


454. “The older you get, the more you need people who knew you when you were young.” — Mary Schmich


455. Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” – Reed Markham


456. “A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” —Unknown


457. If I wasn't at work, I just wanted to stay home and party with my little man—and by 'party' I mean, of course, endless rounds of 'Itsy Bitsy Spider.” — Olivia Wilde


458. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray


459. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.


460. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” —Phyllis Diller


461. “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


462. “I know that [my mother] was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and that what is best in me I owe to her.


463. “There is no influence so powerful as that of a mother.


464. “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” — Bette Davis


465. “Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” ~ Anonymous


466. “An aunt makes life a little sweeter.” —Unknown


467. “Behind every great kid is a mom who is pretty sure she is screwing it up.” — unknown


468. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” — Linda Wooten


469. “Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” —Unknown


470. “My mother has a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain


471. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder


472. “Mother is the person who ranks herself after you in everything” ~ Invajy


473. “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, Writer


474. “I love you, mom.”


475. Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” – Lady Gaga


476. “A mother is a daughter’s first best friend.” — unknown


477. “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” —Lisa Alther


478. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown


479. Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” – Maxim Grosky


480. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard


481. “A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” —Jamie McGuire


482. “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


483. “The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink” — Unknown


484. “A man can love different women during his life. But the love for his mother is timeless.”


485. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” ~ Dorothy


486. “My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for–someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.


487. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. 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.”


488. “What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?” — Rose Kennedy


489. “A mom is like a teabag. You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt


490. A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish proverb


491. “Mom is just a title above queen.”


492. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.


493. Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother’s inspiration?” – Charles R. Swindoll


494. “Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.” – Unknown


495. “Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” —Reed Markham


496. A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” – Unknown


497. “Mothers and children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”


498. “I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.


499. “The soul is healed by being with children.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky


500. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.


501. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” ~ Jill Churchill


502. “Parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.” — Brené Brown


503. “Just when you think you know love, something little comes along and reminds you just how big it is.” – Unknown


504. “Mother — that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” — T. Dewitt Talmage


505. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Mitch Albom


506. “No matter how old she may be, sometimes a girl just needs her mom.”


507. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”


508. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale


509. “Happy Mother’s Day!!! Everything I am, you helped me to be.”


510. Why don't kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?” — Alyson Hannigan


511. Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” – Ricki Lake


512. We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi


513. “It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” — Mahatma Gandhi


514. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain


515. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown


516. “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply … will give us some protection forever.” ~ J.K. Rowling


517. “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.”


518. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” —Linda Wooten


519. “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” — Gail Tsukiyama


520. “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha


521. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” — Cynthia Ozick


522. To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” – Unknown


523. A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty


524. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” — Pamela S. Nadav


525. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” – Booker T. Washington


526. “Happy Mothers Day!!! Thank you for always being the shining example of what I wanted to be like when I grew up.”


527. Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” – Unknown


528. “If I wrote down all the reasons I love you, it’d take up a whole book! Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


529. “The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.” — Daryl Gregory


530. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” ~ Stevie Wonder


531. “Moms are like buttons—they hold everything together. Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


532. “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher


533. All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln


534. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie


535. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.” — Dorothy Canfield Fisher


536. ”I love you and wish you the best Mothers Day!!!”


537. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.


538. “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” — Irish Proverb


539. “Becoming a mother makes you realize you can do almost anything one-handed.” – Unknown


540. Motherhood: Powered by love. Sustained by wine.


541. “Taking care of yourself is part of taking care of your kids.” – Unknown


542. Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” – Mabel Hale


543. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred Vermont


544. “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


545. “There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” ~ Sophie Kinsella


546. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill


547. “There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.”


548. “I think every working mom probably feels the same thing: You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible – oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.” ~ Tina Fey


549. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.


550. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” —Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President


551. “No matter your age, you will always need your mom.” – Unknown


552. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.


553. My mother is a walking miracle.” – Leonardo DiCaprio


554. “Mother and daughter never truly part, maybe in distance but never in heart.”


555. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” — Lance Conrad


556. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.


557. The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge


558. “Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything. Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


559. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. 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


560. “You know how once you have kids you never ever pee by yourself again? At least one of them is always in there with you at all times.” — Jeniffer Garner


561. “My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.” ~ Emma Stone


562. Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale


563. “Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” — Stevie Wonder, Singer


564. “Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather


565. “Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” ~ Maxim Grosky


566. “You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out.”


567. “Thank you for being someone I could always look up to, Mom. Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


568. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher


569. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes


570. “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” — Amy Tan


571. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”


572. It’d be cool if my kids could make something I actually want. Like a bottle of wine out of macaroni.


573. “Happiness is seeing your mother smile.” – Unknown


574. All those clichés, those 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." — Penelope Cruz


575. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~ Aristotle


576. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain


577. “Dear Mom, thank you for keeping all the bad stuff I did from Dad.”


578. “The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.”


579. “Mom: a title just above queen.” —Unknown


580. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm


581. “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


582. She taught me that fear is not an option.” – Diane Von Furstenberg, on her mom


583. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” ~ Mitch Albom


584. “A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes him stronger and more independent.” — Cheri Fuller


585. “There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.” — Tay Hohoff


586. “An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love.” — unknown


587. “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.”


588. My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” – Lisa Leslie


589. Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition.” – Martha Stewart


590. Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.. – Tina Fey


591. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.” – Rajneesh


592. “I look back on my childhood and thank the stars above. For everything you gave me, but mostly for your love.”—Wayne F. Winters


593. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.


594. “There’s nothing like a mother’s love to give us all the strength we need to succeed. Thanks for everything, Mom. Happy Mothers Day !!!”


595. My grandmother is my angel on earth.” – Catherine Pulsifer


596. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” – J.K. Rowling


597. “Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” —Unknown


598. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my mommy you’ll be.”


599. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.” ~ Leroy Brownlow


600. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~ Abraham Lincoln


601. “A woman of faith with praise on her lips and joy in her heart… my beautiful mom. ~ Jeannie Hund


602. What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?” –Louisa May Alcott


603. “A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.” —Proverbs


604. “You are evidence of your mother’s strength.” — Criss Jami


605. “It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” —Unknown


606. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln


607. “My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.


608. Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.” – Nancy Stahl


609. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln


610. “The noblest thoughts my soul can claim, / The holiest words my tongue can frame, / Unworthy are to praise the name / More sacred than all other. / An infant when her love first came— / A man, I find it just the same; / Reverently I breathe her name, / The blessed name of mother”


611. “God couldn’t be everywhere so he created aunts.” —Unknown


612. That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: You can because you must, and you just do.” – Kate Winslet


613. “Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, can keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend.” —Unknown


614. “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein


615. “Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” — unknown


616. You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.” –Ethel Waters


617. “Always my mother; forever my friend.” – Unknown


618. A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” – Unknown


619. I’ve learned to use meditation and relaxation to handle stress. Just kidding, I’m on my third glass of wine.


620. “Insantiy is hereditary; you get it from your children!” — Sam Levenson


621. Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” – Leroy Brownlow


622. “There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.” ~ Anonymous


623. Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” –Ricki Lake


624. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown


625. “There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” — Sophie Kinsella


626. “The biggest adjustment is I just didn’t know there was that much room in a house for that much joy. I have to say it—I didn’t know I could feel like this but I am tired, I am so happy!”


627. “My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.” — Carly Fiorina


628. “She has to have four arms, four legs, two hearts and double the love. There is nothing single about a single mother” – Unknown


629. “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


630. “I can only hope to be 10% of the mom mine was to me.” — Charlize Theron


631. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” ~ Mildred B. Vermont


632. “You make it look easy. The fact is it’s really hard and you do it anyway.”


633. “An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.” —Sara Sheridan


634. “Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.” —Unknown


635. If evolution really works, how come Mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle


636. “Perhaps the reason we respond so universally to our mothers’ love is because it typifies the love of our Savior.”


637. God couldn’t be everywhere, so that is why he invented mothers.” – Daphne Wilder, Because I Said So


638. “The joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.”


639. “My mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” — Jodi Picoult


640. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher


641. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.


642. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” – J. K. Rowling


643. “A mom’s hug lasts long after she let’s go.” – Unknown


644. “A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” — Robert Brault


645. “There is nothing as powerful as mother’s love, and nothing as healing as a child’s soul.” – Unknown


646. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner


647. “A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” —Unknown


648. A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” – Unknown


649. “Silence is golden. Unless you have kids, then silence is just suspicious.” — Unknown


650. “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


651. “Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.”


652. “You gave me the gift of life so our gifts to you pale in comparison. Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


653. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver


654. 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


655. “That’s the wonderful thing about mothers: you can because you must, and you just do.” — Kate Winslet


656. If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children'.” – Susan Savannah


657. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” ~ Mitch Albom


658. “You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.” ~ Kevin Durant


659. “Everything I am, you helped me to be.” — Unknown


660. “If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” – Claudia Ghandi


661. “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


662. “A mother’s love is the sun for growing, the moon for dreaming, the stars for guiding the way.” ~ Barbara Loots


663. “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


664. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” ~ Cardinal Meymillod


665. Being a mom has made me really tired and so happy.” – Tina Fey


666. “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


667. “A mother’s love endures through all.


668. “A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown


669. “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”


670. “There is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.”


671. “My mother is a walking miracle.” ~ Leonardo DiCaprio


672. Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot


673. “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.


674. “There are no goodbyes, wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi


675. “I gave you life, but really, you gave me mine.” – Unknown


676. “I wouldn’t ask for any other person to be my mom! Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


677. “My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.” — Emma Stone, Actress


678. “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” — Barbara Kingsolver


679. “An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.” — Sara Sheridan


680. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning


681. “Motherhood is a choice you make every day to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is, … and to forgive yourself over and over again for doing everything wrong.”


682. “There will be so many times you feel like you’ve failed, but in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child, you are super mom.”


683. I always say if you aren't yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.. – Reese Witherspoon


684. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” – William Makepeace Thackeray


685. “What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”


686. “If evolution really works, how come Mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle


687. “As is the mother, so is her daughter.” – Ezekiel 16:4


688. “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” — Roger Caras


689. A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing, and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope.” – Ellen J. Barrier


690. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” Charley Benetto, For One More Day


691. “Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt


692. Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” – Maria Shriver


693. “Time passes quickly but one thing always lasts – the love and support found in you. ” —Catherine Pulsifer


694. “If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” – Rosie Pope


695. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! (And while I have you, quick apologies for ages 13-21.)


696. “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” — Jean Cocteau


697. “If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it, she could do anything and everything.” —Patsy Cline


698. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.


699. “The love and compassion you’ve always carried in your heart makes you a wonderful mother and a beloved friend.” —Unknown


700. “You showed me when I was young just how to grow / You showed me everything that I should know / You showed me just how to walk without your hands / Cuz mom you always were the perfect fan” —The Backstreet Boys


701. “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, Writer


702. “I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.”


703. “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” —Spanish Proverb


704. “I smile because you’re my aunt. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” —Unknown


705. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown


706. “I loved you before I knew you.” – Unknown


707. “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” —St. Therese of Lisieux


708. There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” – Archibald Thompson


709. “Little souls find their way to you whether they’re from your womb or someone else’s.” – Sheryl Crow


710. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana


711. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust, Lawyer


712. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver


713. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult


714. She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.” – Liza Minellie


715. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo


716. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller


717. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling


718. “To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” —Unknown


719. We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe Harm


720. Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.” –Mike Krzyewski


721. “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


722. The bond between a mother and her child is the only real and purest bond in the world, the only true love we can ever find in our lifetime.” – Ama H. Vanniarachchy


723. “Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother.” — unknown


724. ‘Oh, I’m just a mom,’ you heard women say. Just a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It’s mentorship, it’s inspirational, and it’s our hope for the future. Sally Field


725. “Of all the things my hands have held, the best, by far, is you.” – Unknown


726. “Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. Dewitt Talmage


727. “Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” ~ Marcy DeMaree


728. “A mother’s joy is a son's greatest treasure.”


729. “For every dream that has taken flight, there’s a mother who believed.” ~ Jennifer Fujita


730. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust


731. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod


732. “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. … To have been loved so deeply … will give us some protection forever.”


733. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”


734. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” ~ James E. Faust


735. Dear Mom, Thank you for keeping all the bad stuff I did from Dad.


736. “It’s not where you are in life, it’s who you have by your side that matters.” — unknown


737. “What seems insignificant when you have it is important when you need it.” — Franz Grillparzer


738. “My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” — Buddy Hackett


739. 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


740. It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” – Unknown


741. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” – Unknown


742. For a mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love.” – Unknown


743. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” - Michael Jordan


744. “A mother understands everything, even if child does not say anything” ~ Invajy


745. “My mother is a walking miracle.” —Leonardo DiCaprio


746. The most expensive part of having kids is all the wine you have to drink.


747. It’s not easy being a mom. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” – Betty White


748. “The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede


749. “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” ~ Gail Tsukiyama


750. “Dogs are like that, I guess — they know how to fix you without ever saying a word.” — Caroline George


751. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty


752. “Even on the days, you feel like you are failing, look around. Your child’s smile will bring you right back up” – Unknown


753. “Motherhood: Feeding them as a baby and then throughout most of their twenties.” — unknown


754. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.”


755. “She taught me that fear is not an option.” —Diane Von Furstenberg


756. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Mitch Albom, Author


757. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou


758. “There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” —Archibald Thompson


759. “My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” —Jodi Picoult


760. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling


761. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou


762. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown


763. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie


764. “Nothing is lost until your mother can’t find it.” – Unknown


765. “Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.” — Mignon McLaughlin


766. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” —Leroy Brownlow


767. “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” – Drew Barrymore


768. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill


769. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” ~ Rudyard Kipling


770. “My grandmother is my angel on earth. ” ~ Catherine Pulsifer


771. “Happy Mother’s Day!!! Thank you for laughing with us in the best of times and sticking with us through the worst of times! What would we do without you?”


772. The majority of my diet is made up of foods that my kids didn't finish." — Carrie Underwood


773. When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.” – Anna Quindlen


774. I've conquered a lot of things ... blood clots in my lungs — twice ... knee and foot surgeries ... winning Grand Slams being down match point ... to name just a few, but I found out by far the hardest is figuring out a stroller!. – Serena Williams


775. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga


776. “I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.” — Conor Oberst


777. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray


778. “My grandmother is my angel on earth. ” —Catherine Pulsifer


779. “No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.”


780. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend. Happy Mother’s Day!!!”


781. “When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother thinks twice, once for herself and once for her child.” — Sophia Loren


782. “Usually, the triumph of my day is, you know everybody making it to the potty” — Julia Roberts


783. “The best compliment anyone can give me is to say that I’m just like you.”


784. “No matter your age, you will always need your mom.”


785. A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” – Debasish Mridha


786. “There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.” — Kate Winslet


787. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~ Milton Berle