A mother and daughter bonding over a Hooray Heroes personalized book for Moms.

25 Memorable Quotes for Mother’s Day

A mother and daughter bonding over a Hooray Heroes personalized book for Moms.

So, you’ve found an amazing Mother’s Day gift for the amazing Mom in your life – a Hooray Heroes personalized book. After all, she deserves a little more than a simple token of appreciation, right?

Illustrations of a superhero, queen and fairy mom from a Hooray Heroes custom book for mothers.

Never fear! Hooray Heroes is here … with a whole load of unforgettable quotes that will finish your custom book off right (and tug haaaaard on Mom’s heartstrings). So are you looking for something sweet, inspirational or maybe something a bit more cheeky? We’ve got them all!


1. Something Sweet

There’s nothing mom values more than the time she’s spent with her children and there’s no better way to hold on to those memories than with our personalized books for moms and up to 3 kids!

  • 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)


2. Something Inspirational

If you’re already all grown up and Mom’s job is (mostly) done, you might want to deliver your killer dedication in one of our jaw-droppingly beautiful custom books for mom instead and let her know that she’s always been your hero, strength, and guiding light!

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  • 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)
  • 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


3. Something Funny

If your mom is more of a light hearted soul, you may want to deliver your beautiful quote in something sure to make her break out in a smile! Our custom book for moms from father and child or book for mom, dad and up to three kids are a great place to start!

  • 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
  • If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, ‘Keep away from children.’ – Susan Savannah
  • The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. – Lane Olinghouse
  • It’s a funny thing about mothers… 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 (Matilda)

We know that we’re a nation that loves our Moms, but the truth is that we often forget to tell them just how much they mean to us. So what do you do when the words won’t come? Say it with a book, one of our free Mother’s Day cards, or one of our heart-warming freebies for Mom instead.


Looking for Quotes for a Different Occasion?

No worries, We’ve got you! Click on the links to find amazing quotes for Valentine’s DayFather’s Day, Christmas, or Grandparents!
All the best from Hooray Heroes!