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Looking for inspiration for what to write on your Mother’s Day card or gift tag? Here’s a list, in no particular order, of my favourite Mother related quotes which may provide some guidance.

Is your favourite quote or saying missing from this list? Then please feel free to add it in the comments.

1. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
   Elain Heffner
2. A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.
   Author Unknown
3. There’s nothing like a mama-hug.
   Adabella Radici
4. A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
   Dorothy C. Fisher
5. God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
   Jewish Proverb
6. 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
7. The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant
   Jane Sellman
8. Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
   Kate Douglas Wiggin
9. There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
    Ambrose Bierce
11. Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
12. Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it’s just pure, unthinking delight.
    Barbara Schapiro
13. I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
    Renita Weems
14. A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, ‘where mother is.’
    Keith L. Brooks
15. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
    George Herbert
16. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
    Irish Proverb
17. All I am, I owe to my mother.
    George Washington
18. A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
    Honoré de Balzac
19. A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.
    Washington Irving
20. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
    Abraham Lincoln
21. I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.
    Adabella Radici
22. A mother holds her children’s hands for a while, their hearts forever.
    Anon
23. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
    Mark Twain
24. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
    Pearl S. Buck
25. A mother understands what a child does not say.
    Jewish Proverb
26. Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
    Marion C. Garretty
27. A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you.
    Author Unknown
28. Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.
    Ruth E. Renkel
29. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
    William Ross Wallace
30. Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
    Robert Browning