Happy Mother's Day: 20 Quotes to Honor the Person We Love!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there! This is the day we honor the person we love by doing a little extra (or a LOT extra) to convey our gratitude. Here are 20 quotes about mom from different people in many walks of life to inspire and entertain on this memorable day:

1. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. — Elizabeth Stone
2. It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. — Dorothy on The Golden Girls
3. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever. — J.K. Rowling
4. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. — Oprah Winfrey
5. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. — George Washington
6. There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. — Jill Churchill
7. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. [A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson
9. No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ― Abraham Lincoln
10. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
11. Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin. ― Mitch Albom
12. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. — Jewish Proverb
13. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. — Barbara Kingsolver
14. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. — Sophia Loren
15. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. — Irish Proverb
16. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher
17. This is what we do, my mother’s life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make. ―Cammie McGovern
18. Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child. — Buddha
19. The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." — Jane Sellman
20. 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

And here's one from me:

"Mother means many things to many people. But to me it's always a verb." — Scott Anderson

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