25 Heartfelt Quotes That Go Beyond 'Happy Mother's Day'

25 Heartfelt Quotes That Go Beyond 'Happy Mother's Day'

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

- George Eliot

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"We are born of love; Love is our mother."

- Rumi

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

-William Makepeace Thackeray

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

-William Makepeace Thackeray

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

- Cardinal Meymillod

"Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother."

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

- Jodi Picoult

"He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark."

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

"If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning."

"There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears."

- Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Honore de Balzac

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

- Robert Browning

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

- Erich Fromm

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"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. "

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them"