125 Heartfelt Mother's Day Quotes That Capture the Essence of Motherhood
It isn't always pretty, but it's full of love.
You don't need to wait until Mother's Day to let your mom know how you feel about her ... but a lot of us do. That's because, as the great writer Cynthia Ozick said, "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."
She really hit the nail on the head with that one. In fact, a lot of times, the words we need to express how we feel about our mothers have already be said — succinctly, humorously, or sweetly — but great thinkers who knew just how to put our emotions into words. So whether you're preparing a toast for Mother's Day brunch , wondering what to write in a Mother's Day card or thinking of the perfect Mother's Day Instagram caption , if you're looking for inspiration, you can always draw upon this list of the best Mother's Day quotes.Some are sweet sayings about our mothers, others are funny observations from real moms, and some work for mother figures, stepmoms and grandmothers, too. Once these writers, actors, comedians and thinkers get you started, you can take it from there.
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Tenneva Jordan
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.
Ali Wong
Just because you became a parent doesn't mean you grew up.
Charley Benetto
When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Barbara Walters
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
Susan Gale
Mothers are like glue. Even when you can't see them, they're still holding the family together.
Betty White
My mother always used to say, the older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.
Bill Watterson
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Cynthia Nixon
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
Debra Messing
It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.
Cynthia Ozick
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Diane Keaton
[Motherhood] really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.
Fran Lebowitz
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Saleem Sharma
There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.
Nia Vardalos
Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.
Pearl S. Buck
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Phylicia Rashad
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother is a mistake.
Rita Rudner
I was asking my friend who has children, 'What if I have a baby and I dedicate my life to it and it grows up to hate me. And it blames everything wrong with its life on me.' And she said, 'What do you mean, "if?"'
Reed B. Markham
Mothers can look through a child's eyes and see tomorrow.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; she previously wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother . She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found dominating the audio round at her local bar trivia night or tweeting about movies.
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