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

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

789. “There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child you are super mom.” —Stephanie Precourt

790. “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

791. “A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. Wish you a very Happy Mother’s Day !!!” ~ Invajy

792. “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” —Unknown

793. I remember my mother’s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln

794. “You were right about absolutely everything. Thanks for being my mom!”

795. Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever.” – Unknown

796. “The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.” — John J. Plomp

797. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” - Elaine Heffner

798. “The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin

799. 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.” – George Washington

800. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey