These touching mom quotes will warm your heart
100 Mom Quotes That Will Make You Want to Call Your Mother
Mom quotes that perfectly capture her essence
No matter how old we get, our mother’s love will always be meaningful and powerful to us. We know how much we love our moms, but sometimes, Mother’s Day quotes or even mom jokes convey how we feel better than our own words can. This year, Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 12, and whether you’re lucky enough to still have your mom or you have treasured memories of her, these mom quotes will remind you how much she means to you.
You’ll find a range of sweet and heartfelt motherhood quotes for every mom in your life (stepmoms, too, of course!). Share these words with new moms, single moms and moms you can’t be with this year. We even added a few funny mom quotes for extra smiles.
Get ready to celebrate Mother’s Day with these loving mom quotes below!
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Inspirational mom quotes
1. “There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.” —Billy Sunday
2. “A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.” —Washington Irving
3. “Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall. A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” —Jodi Picoult
5. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb
6. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
7. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” —Charles R. Swindoll
8. “The best medicine in the world is a mother’s kiss.” —Anonymous
9. “I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Mitch Albom
Mother’s Day quotes
21. “Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.” —Anonymous
22. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi
23. “A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” —Unknown
24. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou
25. “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan
26. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder
27. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” —Rudyard Kipling
28. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” —Elder M. Russell Ballard
29. “Mother is a verb. It’s something you do, not just who you are.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
30. “Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” —Mabel Hale
31. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale
32. “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha
33. “Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” —T. Dewitt Talmage
If you haven’t picked up the phone to call your mom yet, these Mother’s Day stories may make you want to do that.
Funny mom quotes
34. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”—Phyllis Diller
35. “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” —Roald Dahl
36. “May your coffee be stronger than your toddler.” —Unknown
37. “In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” —Randy Susan Meyers
38. “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” —Lisa Alther
39. “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” —P.J. O’Rourke
40. “It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of food that my kid didn’t finish.” —Carrie Underwood
41. “Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.” —Unknown
42. “Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.” —Sam Levenson
43. “My sister said once: ‘Anything I don’t want Mother to know, I don’t even think of if she’s in the room.'” —Agatha Christie
44. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” —Milton Berle
45. “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
46. “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
47. “Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” —Tina Fey
48. “Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious.” —Unknown
49. “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” —Calvin Trillin
50. “Having children is like living in a frat house. Nobody sleeps, everything’s broken and there’s a lot of throwing up.” —Ray Romano
51. “Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.” —Beverley Jones
52. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.” —Dorothy Parker
53. “Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.” —Mignon McLaughlin
If you’re trying to brainstorm some Mother’s Day ideas for this year, these funny mom quotes will definitely make her laugh.
Strong mom quotes
54. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” —Jessica Lange
55. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” —Marion C. Garretty
56. “My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.” —Drew Barrymore
57. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie
58. “I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.” —Oprah
59. “If you’re a mom, you’re a superhero. Period.” —Rosie Pope
60. “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” —Sara Josepha Hale
61. “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
62. “My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” —Michelle Obama
New mom quotes
70. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot
71. “Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.” —Ricki Lake
72. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep
Single mom quotes
81. “Being a mama can be tough, but always remember, in the eyes of your child, no one does it better than you.” —Unknown
82. “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
83. “I value so many people who have to work full-time, definitely single mothers. Their work is the hardest work. I applaud it so much.” —Molly Sims
84. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
85. “Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” —Linda Wooten
86. “I think it’s really important for every mother to find their own way.” —Solange Knowles
87. “I want to show the example that you can be a single mother and work and handle a lot of other things at the same time.” —Christina Milian
88. “Being raised by a single mother, I learned to appreciate and value independent women.” —Kenny Conley
If you’re looking for something to do this Mother’s Day, these mom movies will make for a sweet marathon.
Missing mom quotes
89. “I love you every day. And now, I will miss you every day.” —Mitch Albom
90. “If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” —Claudia Gandhi
91. “There are no goodbyes. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” —Mahatma Gandhi
92. “No daughter and mother should ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.” —Christie Watson
93. “No matter what age … I’ll always need you, Mom.” —Unknown
94. “My mother is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune.” —Graycie Harmon
95. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” —Terri Guillemets
96. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a while, but their hearts forever.” —Unknown
97. “A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” —Unknown
98. “Those we love don’t go away; they sit beside us every day.” —Liane Moriarty
99. “There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.” —Isabel Allende
100. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” —Jack Lemmon
Now that you know all the best mom quotes, pair them with one of these Mother’s Day gifts to show your appreciation.
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