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

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

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

There’s a story behind everything…but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story…because hers is where yours begins.

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

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

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

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

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

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.

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

My mom is definitely my rock.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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

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

It don’t gotta be Mother’s Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say, ‘Hey Mama’

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,To my first Love, my Mother, on whose kneeI learnt love-lore that is not troublesome.

Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Spend at least one Mother’s Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

You sacrificed for us – you’re the real MVP.

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

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

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You’ve given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

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

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

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

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

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

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.

It’s Mother’s Day, so a big ‘Happy Birthday’ to all you mothers out there!

What can you say about a man, who on Mother’s Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers

There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.

You never get over bein’ a child long’s you have a mother to go to.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

What I love most about Mother’s Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends’ mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, ‘Please don’t write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it’s bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.’

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

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

Nothing erodes [a mother’s love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

It’s the moms of this nation – single, married, widowed – who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters. You know it’s true, don’t you? You’re the ones who always have to do a little more.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone’s going to tell you how to do it and why. I’ve always said to other mothers and women when they’ve asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

I really learned it all from mothers.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even – no, especially – when the truth is difficult. It’s always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

Mother’s Day is coming up soon. If you’re lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you’re grateful to her […] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.