It can be easy to take our moms for granted. We should all let our moms know how much we admire them on the regular, but of course we have a yearly holiday just for appreciating our moms! One of the best ways to let your mom know how much you love and appreciate her is with words, and thanks to this list of the best Mother’s Day quotes, they don’t even have to be your own. We’ve collected the wisest words on mothers and motherhood to share with your mom and warm her heart. If you really want to impress Mom, read her one of these Mother’s Day poems, or tailor your words to your specific relationship with these mother-daughter quotes and mother-son quotes.
Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Ezekiel 16:4
“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
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Tim McGraw
“My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.”
Emma Stone
“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.”
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Mark Twain
“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.”
Shannon Alder
“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children’s happiness.”
Richelle Goodrich
“Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.”
Erin Kelly
“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.”
Susan Gale
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.”
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Maya Angelou
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”
Jill Churchill
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
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Princess Diana
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
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