Mother's day quotes (show moms the love they deserve)

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

– Theodore Hesburgh

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

– Gracie Allen

Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.

– Gloria Estefan

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

– Abraham Lincoln

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

– Isadora Duncan

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

– Rudyard Kipling

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

– Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

– Billy Sunday

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

– Abraham Lincoln

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

– Sophocles

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

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

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

– Gilbert Parker

Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

– Donald E. Westlake

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

– Victor Hugo

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

– Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

– Robert Browning

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

– Milton Berle

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

– Martina Hingis

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

– George Eliot

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

– Antonio Villaraigosa

My mom is definitely my rock.

– Alicia Keys

The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.

– Henry Ward Beecher

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

– Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My mother is a walking miracle.

– Leonardo DiCaprio

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

– Erich Fromm