Best Mother's Day Quotes for Mum
Mums are the best. They give so much and ask for so little. But there is a day in the year when you can really go above and beyond in showing mum how much you appreciate her - Mother's Day.
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
— Maya Angelou
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
— Kahil Gibran
“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
— Cardinal Mermillod
“I have so much of you in my heart.”
— John Keats
“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
– Stevie Wonder
There is no other love like a mother’s love for her child.
– Céline Dion
We are born of love; love is our mother.
– Rumi
Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
– Emily Dickinson
A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone’s else’s.
– Princess Diana
He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.
– J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
– Jill Churchill
But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.
– Mitch Albom
Each day we make deposits in our memory banks of our children.
– Charles F. Swindoll
‘Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-light are lit?’ ‘Nothing, precious,’ she said; ‘they are the eyes a mother leaves behind to guard her children.’
– J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.
– Erin Kelly
Biology is the least of which makes someone a mother.
– Oprah Winfrey
There’s something really empowering about going, ‘Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!’ That’s the wonderful things about mothers, you can because you must, and you just do.
– Kate Winslet
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
– C. S. Forester (The African Queen)
It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
– Dorothy, The Golden Girls
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.
– Olivia Newton-John
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
– Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
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
There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.
– Elder M. Russell Ballard
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
– Agatha Christie (The Last Séance)
GOOD PLANS FOR MOTHER'S DAY: FREEBIES FOR MUMS
Since you already have the best gift in the world for her, why not finish it off right with one of our freebies guaranteed to delight mothers and children alike. We offer everything from a "Mother of the Year" plaque, vouchers for Mum and free phone wallpapers with illustrations taken directly from our bestselling custom books.
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