Quotes You Can Use for Mother’s Day

There is a lot that has been said about mothers. Their influence, their sacrifice and even their humor, affect our lives in countless ways. All through the ages people have had plenty to say about mothers and what they do. From the famous to that most noted writer Anonymous, there have been plenty of quotes about moms. This Mother’s Day, if you are looking for a sentiment to express your love for mom or just make her laugh, then one of these quotes just might be right for you. Here are quotes that you can use for Mother’s Day-

Quotes from famous people about mothers–

• If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. Golda Meir
• The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher
• All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. Abraham Lincoln
• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. Napoleon Bonaparte
• A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. Mark Twain
• I wish I could sit here and give you words to describe what my mother means to me. There aren’t enough words in the dictionary. I don’t know how she did it. LeBron James
• 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

Quotes from famous writers about mothers-

• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation less class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. Lin Yutang, Chinese writer
• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. James Joyce
• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. Oscar Wilde
• The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn’t getting enough sleep. John Fiebig
• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• If I was damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine. Rudyard Kipling

Quotes from Anonymous sources-

• No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you. Anonymous
• Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Unknown
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Unknown
• The patience of a mother might be likened to a tube of toothpaste – it’s never quite all gone. Author Unknown