If you are creating a handmade Mother's Day card or even sending an e-card that you want to personalize with some thoughtful sayings, here is a list of some of the best-loved and most popular quotes and sayings that honor mothers on their special day. Some of these quotes would look the most beautiful in a child's handwriting!
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. -Jewish Proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. -Mildred B. Vermont
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. -Peter De Vries
Use some of these short poems to make a homemade card for Mom!
The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. -William Goldsmith Brown
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, Women and Beauty
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. -Marion C. Garretty, A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
Famous Mother's Day Quotes
Here are some Mother's Day quotations from some famous people in history.
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
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. -Aristotle
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. -Robert Browning
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. - Abraham Lincoln
More Words for Mom
Whether you are filling in the signature area of a Hallmark card or creating a child's card from construction paper and lace, here are some more words that are perfect for Mom!
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. -Tenneva Jordan
A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. -Author Unknown
My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. -Graycie Harmon
On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other! -Forest Houtenschil
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. -Chinese Proverb
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. -William Makepeace Thackeray
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! -Thomas Moore
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