35 Quotes For Mothers Day: Love, Gratitude, And Memory

“I think mothers are so important. I mean, it seems like such an obvious thing to say, but I think we don't really express that enough, apart from one day a year. So I think we need to come together and celebrate us every day.”

“I believe a mother is a blessing for everyone and we should make it a point to appreciate them every day.”

“I don't need any particular day to tell my mother I love her.”

“Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.”

“A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope.”

“Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like.”

“My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.”

“My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.”

“I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.”

“I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.”

“There were times in my life where I didn't know, my mother didn't know, where my next meal was coming from. There were days she worked three jobs all in the same day to make sure she was able to keep a roof over our heads.”

“There were moments when we could not afford to have three meals a day. My mother would lurch from one low-wage job to the next. And so, our income varied widely.”

“I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.”

“My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole day since it was close by.”

“My mother made wonderful cheesecake. She loved cheesecake. She ate it every day of her life.”

“I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone.”

“My mother wasn't a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she'd tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.”

“I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.”

“Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.”

“My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.”

“And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.”

“I start my day with a hot water and lemon routine. I meditate. And I take my problems lightly, like my mother always said: treat them like helium balloons and let them go. I devour a lot of books to feed my mind.”

“My curiosity and love for food started at an early age. My mother was a working mom, so I learned to whip up sweet and savory food using everyday pantry and grocery store ingredients that required little supervision.”

“On Mother's Day, we take a moment to stop and honor our mothers for all they do. It has been my privilege to know mothers who have turned incredible loss and pain into tremendous advocacy and greater social change.”

“For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.”

“Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.”

“We don't do the roses for Mother's Day thing. We co-create things, and that is how we show love and affection.”

“Mother's Day is nothing but a marketing gimmick.”

“I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.”

“I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.”

“Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.”

“Motherhood is quite challenging. Everyday is a whole new adventure with your child.”

“Personally, I love being a mother the most. I dream of taking holidays with my three kids. I want to take my kids to beaches, gardens, the farm, malls everywhere.”

“I celebrate my life, whether it's being a single mother, wearing diamonds, or holidaying in exotic places.”

“My grandmother and my mother were both told to stop working and take an anonymous role in society when they got married. Their usefulness had other uses now, they were told. Those days are very much over.”