From Tina Fey to Princess Diana, here's what some of our favorite people have to say about a mother's love.
A great Mother's Day card isn't just a classic, it's a great way to show your appreciation for mom... with one caveat. No matter how beautiful the card you choose, or how meaningful the sentiment, the emotion behind it can be instantly derailed by a thoughtless inscription (or, worse yet, nothing but your name) scribbled onto the interior at the last second. We get it, coming up with something to say that encompasses all the moms in your life mean to you can feel like an insurmountable task. Fortunately, many of the greatest thinkers of all time have applied themselves to the task for centuries, and if well-deployed, a quote from one of them will turn a good Mother's Day card or letter into one she'll never forget.
Here, we've rounded up some of the greatest saying about moms that will be sure to pluck at her heart strings this Mother's Day (that's Sunday, May 12, 2024, in case you forgot.)
"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
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"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
- Mitch Albom
"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."
- Unknown
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"The best place to cry is on a mother's arms."
- Jodi Picoult
"If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning."
- Unknown
"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
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"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
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"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
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“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
—Victor Hugo
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."
- Princess Diana
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then, I want to move in with them."
- Phyllis Diller
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"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness."
- Jessica Lange
"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
