10 Best Mother’s Day Quotes and Sayings

10 Best Mother’s Day Quotes and Sayings
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Kristina Skorbach
5/6/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

Need some inspiration for the upcoming Mother’s Day, (which is on Sunday, May 11, 2014) or need to write a quote in the card you got her? Here are the 10 best Mother’s Day quotes to get you started. 

1. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln.

2. “There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill.

3. “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” — Irish proverb.

4. “God could no be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” — Jewish proverb.

5. “Mothers are all slightly insane.” — J.D. Salinger.

6. “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” — Unknown. 

7. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” — Jewish proverb.

8. “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.

9. “A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 

10. “We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.” — Henry Ward Beecher. 

If you got inspired to get your mother a gift, check our the 10 Best Gift Ideas for Every Kind of Mom. Happy Mother’s Day! 

(*Mother’s Day image via Shutterstock.) 

 

 

 

Kristina Skorbach is a Canadian correspondent based in New York City covering entertainment news.
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