1. “The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. “My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, ‘I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.” ― Jason Segel
3. “When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.” ― Connie Schultz
4. “Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.” ― Taraji P. Henson
5. “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” — Sara Josepha Hale
6. “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” ― Jessica Lange
7. “My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” ― Jodi Picoult
8. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” ― Leroy Brownlow
9. “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” ― Roald Dahl
10. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” ― Oprah Winfrey
11. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie
12. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” ― Jill Churchill
13. “Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” — Mildred B. Vermont
14. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” ― Susan Gale
15. “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
16. “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” ― Rudyard Kipling
17. “Mother’s love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.” ― Erich Fromm
18. “The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” ― Jodi Picoult
19. “Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” ― Unknown
20. “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” ― George Eliot
21. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” ― Meryl Streep
22. “If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” ― Booker T. Washington
23. “She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.” ― Liza Minellie
24. “It’s the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it’s the hardest job.” ― Debra Messing
25. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” ― Michael Jordan
26. “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” ― P.J. O’Rourke
27. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Charley Benetto
28. “My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was 6 and my brother was 8; I never forgot it.” ― Stephen King
29. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” — Erich Fromm
30. “My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, “Happiness is your own responsibility.” ― Jennifer Garner
31. “I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.” ― Tom Hiddleston
32. “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe
33. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” — Cardinal Mermillod
34. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ― Abraham Lincoln
35. “My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.” ― Mark Twain
36. “As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.” ― Cindy Crawford
37. “He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” ― J.K. Rowling
38. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
39. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.” ― James Joyce
40. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” ― Mitch Albom
41. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ― Victor Hugo
42. “My mother is a walking miracle.” ― Leonardo DiCaprio
43. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” ― Robert Browning
44. “Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.” ― Angelina Jolie
45. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” ― Dorothy on The Golden Girls
46. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” ― Stevie Wonder
47. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” ― Jill Churchill
48. “Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.” ― Mignon McLaughlin
49. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” ― Dorothy Canfield Fisher
50. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ― William Makepeace Thackeray
51. “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
52. “In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” — Adrienne Rich
53. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” ― Elder M. Russell Ballard
54. “The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word ‘Mother’, and the most beautiful call is the call of ‘My Mother’.” ― Kahlil Gibran
55. “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
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