Heartfelt and Inspirational Mother's Day Quotes to Touch Your Soul

"When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

- Charley Benetto

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."

- Maya Angelou

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."

- Maya Angelou

"A mother’s love liberates."

- Maya Angelou

"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

- Mitch Albom

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart."

- Kristin Hannah

"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s."

- Princess Diana

"There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation."

- James E. Faust

"A mother’s love is everything. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man."

- Jamie McGuire

"If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love."

- Revathi Sankaran

"Mothers have the ability to liberate by love or, by neglect, to imprison. They’re our first teachers; they are our first loves."

- Maya Angelou

"My mother taught me empathy — the basic concept of standing in somebody else’s shoes and looking through their eyes. If I did something messed up, she’d just say, ‘How would that make you feel if somebody did that to you?’"

- Barack Obama

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Motherhood: all love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

"He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark."

- J.K. Rowling

"Family is not an important thing. It’s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

"It’s one of those things where you think you’ve done it all, you think you’ve felt it all. But I just didn’t know that this kind of love existed."

- Hoda Kotb

"A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me."

- Kristin Hannah

"To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world."

- Dr. Seuss

"My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched."

- President Barack Obama

"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

"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

- Mitch Albom

"A mother's love liberates."

- Maya Angelou

"When I had my children and I felt that type of love, which I know you understand and every mom out there understands, it made me understand that there was a purity to love. That there is an unconditional love."

- Jennifer Lopez

"When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

- Mitch Albom

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

- Washington Irving

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving."

- Gail Tsukiyama

"Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is… and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong."

- Donna Ball

"A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking."

- Helen Steiner Rice

"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."

- Agatha Christie

"My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind."

- Michael Jordan

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had."

- Linda Wooten

"Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne."

- Mabel Hale

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love."

- Edwin Chapin

"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine life without her."

- Kristin Hannah

"If nothing is going well, call your grandmother."

- Italian Proverb

"My grandmother is my angel on earth."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete."

- Marcy DeMaree

"I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother."

- Andre Leon Talley

"The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators."

- Daryl Gregory

"Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together."

- Susan Gale

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

- Cardinal Mermillod

"There is no influence so powerful as that of a mother."

- Sara Josepha Hale

"My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edge, and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

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

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease."

- Lisa Alther

"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

"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."

- Spanish Proverb

"A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have."

- Robert Brault

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong."

- Laura Stavoe Harm

"It’s not easy being a mother. If it were, fathers would do it."

- The Golden Girls

"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

"The phrase ’working mother’ is redundant."

- Jane Sellman

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

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

- Milton Berle

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."

- Chinese Proverb

"The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother."

- St. Therese of Lisieux

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

- Marion C. Garretty

"Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me."

- Lady Gaga

"To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language."

- Arlene Benedict

"A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."

- Lin Yutang

"Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow."

- Reed Markham

"Mother—that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."

- T. Dewitt Talmage

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"I have so much of you in my heart."

- John Keats

"An older sister is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too."

- Pam Brown

"The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend."

- Cali Rae Turner

"Time passes quickly but one thing always lasts – the love and support found in you."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Your sisters are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were."

- Betsy Cohen

"Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"There will be so many times you feel like you failed. But in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child you are super mom."

- Stephanie Precourt

"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."

- Princess Diana

"If I know what love is, it is because of you."

- Herman Hesse, "Narcissus and Goldmund"

"When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is your mother."

- Anna Quindlen

"Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb."

- leroy Bronlow

"There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it."

- M.L. Stedman

"This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. ‘Going through life with your heart outside your body."

- Jennifer Weiner

"Mothers are like glue. Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together."

- Susan Gale

"Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind."

- Howard W. Hunter

"Becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I’ve never felt more empowered."

- Kelly Clarkson

"It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job."

- Debra Messing

"Love may be the matter that keeps the stars in the firmament. It may be. Love allows you to tough and tender."

- Maya Angelou

"Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. Mighty is the force of motherhood!"

- George Eliot

"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

"Sometimes, the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family."

- Menachem Begin

"The most important thing in the world is family and love."

- John Wooden

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu

"If I know what love is, it’s because of you."

- Hermann Hesse

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."

- Zelda Fitzgerald

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

- David Viscott

"The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms."

- Jodi Picoult

"Only mothers can think of the future ― because they give birth to it in their children."

- Maxim Gorky

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

- Honoré de Balzac

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

- Victor Hugo

"A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity."

- Sarah Strohmeyer

"Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them."

- Karen White

"You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

- e.e. cummings

"There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one."

- Sue Atkins

"To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

- Barbara Johnson

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not."

- James Joyce

"The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom."

- Sandra Vischer

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A queen could leave her throne. But a mother never leaves her son."

- V.E. Schwab

"It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you."

- Julia Quinn

"When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows."

- Amy Poehler

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You can feel when your mom’s proud of you. You can feel the love."

- Jimmy Fallon

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much."

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy."

- Tina Fey

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

- George Washington

"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."

- Mark Twain

"I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'"

- Michelle Obama

"[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary — it’s an act of infinite optimism."

- Gilda Radner

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children."

- John Steinbeck

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"

- Mister Rogers

"The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother."

- Goldie Hawn

"There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child."

- Anne Lamott

"There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a millions ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone

"Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins."

- Mitch Albom

"I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother."

- Maya Angelou

"The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one."

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side."

- Sara Sheridan

"There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss."

- Saleem Sharma

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

- George Eliot

"We are born of love; love is our mother."

- Rumi

"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."

- Kahil Gibran

"There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother."

- Sara Josepha Hale

"Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget."

- Taraji P. Henson

"My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood."

- Elder M. Russell Ballard

"Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children."

- Maxim Grosky

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

"Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism."

- Gilda Radner

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

- Jewish Proverb

"The world needs our mothers."

- Liya Kebede

"A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place."

- Amy Tan

"Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

"A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Victor Hugo

"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

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

- Elaine Heffner

"In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’"

- Adrienne Rich

"If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

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

- Erich Fromm

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love."

- Mildred B. Vermont

"When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."

- Mitch Albom

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

- Jill Churchill

"There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps."

- Archibald Thompson

"A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness."

- Proverbs

"A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself."

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

"That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.’ She says, ‘Toughen up, this is the reality we are living in.’"

- Lauryn Hill

"I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is."

- Oprah

"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

"Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing."

- Ricki Lake

"Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are."

- Beyoncé

"A mother is the truest friend we have."

- Washington Irving

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed."

- Linda Wooten

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born."

- Osho

"My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me."

- R.J. Palacio

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

- L.R. Knost

"The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops."

- Anna Quindlen

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."

- Rose Kennedy

"Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."

- Lisa Leslie

"Every day when you’re raising kids, you feel like you could cry or crack up and just scream ‘This is ridiculous!’ because there’s so much nonsense, whether it’s what they’re saying to you or the fact that there’s avocado or poop on every surface."

- Kristen Bell

"The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation."

- James E. Faust

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"My mother is a walking miracle."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."

- Dan Pearce

"In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth."

- Randy Susan Meyers

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob."

- Leroy Brownlow

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

- Meryl Streep

"Get rid of the guilt ... When you're at one place, don't feel bad that you're not at work; when you're at work, don't feel bad that you're not at home."

- Katie Couric

"As moms, we have a unique opportunity to keep changing this attitude that ambition is an ugly quality in women."

- Reese Witherspoon

"I’ve been a waitress, an actress, a princess, a Duchess… and the most important title I’ll ever have is mom."

- Meghan Markle

"God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers."

- Diane Keaton

"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"To a child’s ear, “mother” is magic in any language."

- Arlene Benedict

"I’m a person of faith. It feels like the greatest embrace from God that I can imagine, to get to have a baby."

- Savannah Guthrie

"There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

- Jill Churchill

"Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears."

- Kate Winslet

"No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever."

- Adriana Trigiani

"Even as a small child, I understood that women had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."

- Alice Hoffman

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

- George Bernard Shaw

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

- Cynthia Ozick

"Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do."

- Cynthia Nixon

"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."

- Lance Conrad

"Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done."

- Rebecca Woolf

"If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother."

- Booker T. Washington

"Home is people. Not a place."

- Robin Hobb

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does."

- Oscar Wilde

"Once you sign on to be a mother, 24/7 is the only shift they offer."

- Jodi Picoult

"It’s a funny thing about mothers... 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

"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

- Bette Davis

"You are far more precious than jewels."

- Proverbs

"Mothers are the necessity of invention."

- Bill Watterson

"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."

- Robert J. Quillen

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Your heart feels like it’s outside your body and you’re too old to drink the feelings away like you used to."

- Amy Schumer

"Just because you became a parent doesn't mean you grew up."

- Ali Wong

"Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met."

- Marguerite Duras

"Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy."

- Barbara Walters

"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

"The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology."

- Ray Romano

"Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up."

- Ray Romano

"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers."

- Bern Williams

"The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

- Clarence Darrow

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

- Mark Twain

"Don’t try and make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

- Russell Baker

"Having a child is like getting a tattoo ... on your face. You better be committed."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."

- P.J. O’Rourke

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"If evolution really works, how come mother’s only have two hands?"

- Milton Berle

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."

- Charles M. Schulz

"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out."

- Erma Bombeck

"My mother used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.’"

- Betty White

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."

- P. J. O’Rourke

"It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds."

- Gina Barreca

"My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana."

- Betty White

"Why don’t kids understand their nap is not for them, but for us?"

- Alyson Hannigan

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

- Milton Berle

"As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother."

- Prince William

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"I’m not insane. My mother had me tested."

- Sheldon Cooper

"Everything I am, you helped me to be."

- unknown

"A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend."

- Unknown

"A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin."

- Unknown

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

"To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world."

- Unknown

"Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything."

- Unknown

"Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother."

"A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go."

"Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother."

- Unknown

"I smile because you’re my aunt. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it."

- Unknown

"An aunt makes life a little sweeter."

- Unknown

"An aunt grows more treasured as time goes by."

- Unknown

"Aunt; like a mom only cooler."

- Unknown

"Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone."

- Unknown

"It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother—that’s why the world calls her grandmother."

- Unknown

"Aunt: A cherished friend and personal cheerleader who will always see you through rose-colored glasses."

- Unknown

"Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love."

"A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend."

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"An aunt is someone special to remember with warmth, think of with pride, and cherish with love."

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"Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever."

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"Only an aunt can give hugs like a mother, can keep secrets like a sister and share love like a friend."

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"Mom: a title just above queen."

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"Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it."

"There’s no place like home except Grandma’s."

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"God couldn’t be everywhere so he created aunts."

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"Great sisters get promoted to aunt."

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"To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world."

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"Aunt ― a double blessing. You love like a parent and act like a friend."

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"An aunt is always there for all the times when you need a second mom."

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"Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request."

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"No matter how old I get, I will always be your little girl. Love you, Mom!"

"You are the role model I look up to, the woman I aspire to be. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!"

"To the woman who gave me life and taught me how to live it with grace, I love you beyond words!"

"Mom, you are my first love, my forever hero. Happy Mother’s Day!"

"You are not just my children's mother but our family's heart. Love you always!"

"Watching you be a mother to our children makes me fall in love with you more every day. Happy Mother’s Day!"

"Thank you for being my biggest cheerleader and my strongest supporter. Love you, Mom!"

"Watching you become the amazing mother you are today fills our hearts with pride. Happy Mother’s Day!"