100 Heartfelt Mother's Day Quotes That Are as Beautiful as She Is
Let Mom know she's the best with these sweet messages.
Whether you have a fun, wacky mom; a take-charge mom who runs the house like a tight ship; a snuggly mom who loves to give hugs; a cool mom up on all the latest trends or some other type of matriarch, it can be hard to put exactly what you love about her into words. So, we've outsourced the issue.
If you’re in need of heartfelt messages to share with your mom, we’ve rounded up the best Mother’s Day quotes from actors, singers, writers and thinkers, among other geniuses who’ve perfectly described how we feel about our mothers. Some are funny, some are honest (too honest?), some are about having inspirational moms and some are about being a mother, but they all capture the strength of that mother-child bond, and the unconditional love that goes with it.
Put them in a Mother's Day card, use them in Mother's Day Instagram captions, have them be a toast at Mother's Day brunch, text them to your mom, so she knows just how special she is. While crafting your Mother’s Day message, you might want to customize it even more with a poem and quotes for mother-daughters, mother-sons or new moms.
Aimee Bender
I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me.
Ezekiel 16:44
As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Anna Quindlen
When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother.
Annie Lennox
Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody.
Bern Williams
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
Cheryl Lacey Donovan
Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.
Booker T. Washington
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
Honore de Balzac
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Tenneva Jordan
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's no ideal — a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.
Conor Oberst
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.
Maya Angelou
A mother's love liberates.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Marion C. Garretty
Mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Dr. Seuss
To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
Maria Shriver
Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on.
Edgar Allen Poe
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."
Agatha Christie
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.
Edwin Chapin
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.
Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; she previously wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found dominating the audio round at her local bar trivia night or tweeting about movies.
Selena is the entertainment and news editor for Good Housekeeping, where she covers the latest on TV, movies and celebrities. In addition to writing and editing entertainment news, she also spotlights the Hispanic and Latinx community through her work. She is a graduate of CUNY Hunter College with a B.A. in journalism and creative writing.
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