50 Best Mom Quotes & Mother’s Day Quotes

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
-Jill Churchill

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
-Unknown

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
-Henry Ward Beecher

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

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
-Jewish proverb

No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life.
-Anonymous

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
-Kate Douglas Wiggins

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

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

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

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
-Irish Proverb

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
-William Makepeace Thackeray

My mother is a walking miracle.
-Leonardo DiCaprio

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
-Robert Browning

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

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-Barbara Kingsolver

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

Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
-Sarah Malin

The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.
-Author Unknown

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont

There’s nothing like a mama-hug.
-Terri Guillemets

Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
-Anne Taylor

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

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
-Albert Einstein

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
-Cardinal Mermillod

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
-Mark Twain