75+ Unique Mother’s Day Quotes to Make Her Day

Mother’s Day is the perfect occasion to celebrate your day-one hero. So, it’s time to put your love into words and shower your mom, grandma, or any other “moms” in your life with appreciation.

Can’t seem to find the perfect words? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with a list of 75+ Mother’s Day quotes that’ll touch her heart or tickle her funny bone.

1. Heartfelt Mother’s Day Quotes

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” – Princess Diana
“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Mermillod
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan
“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
“A mother’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible” – Marion C. Garretty
“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” – Helen Rice

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling
“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
“To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.” – Unknown
“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower bouquet or any gift in the world.” – Debasish Mridha

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner
“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love” – Edwin Chapin
“She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman–you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun” – D.H. Lawrence

2. Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

“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
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children” – Sam Levenson
“Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” —Unknown
“Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out” – Unknown

“Becoming a mom to me means you have accepted that for 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse” – Nia Vardalos
“Mother (n): One person who does the work of 20. For free. See also: saint, Wonder Woman.” — Unknown
“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” —Lisa Alther
“Wine is necessary” – Kelly Clarkson
“I don’t want to sleep like a baby. I want to sleep like my husband.” — Unknown

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” — Erma Bombeck
“Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious.” — Unknown
“You know you’re a mom when you understand why Mama Bear’s porridge was cold.” — Unknown
“I asked my mom if I was a gifted child… she said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.” – Unknown
“Behind every great child is a mom who’s pretty sure she’s screwing it all up.” — Unknown”
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” –Nora Ephron

3. First Mother’s Day Quotes

“No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you’re the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside.” — Unknown

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” – Unknown
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” – Rajneesh
“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” – Tina Fey
“A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
“You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.” — Jennifer Hudson

“Just when you think you know love, something little comes along and reminds you just how big it is.” — Unknown
“Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.” – Taylor Hanson
“A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.” – Mary Mason
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” – Jill Churchill
“A baby arrives, and just like that everything changes. The world gets bigger, the heart grows fuller, and life means more.” – Unknown

“Becoming a mother is discovering strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you never knew existed.” – Linda Wooten
“Having a child is like having your heart walk around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
“A new baby is like the beginning of all things, hope, a dream of possibilities.” – Eda J. Le Shan
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving” – Gail Tsukiyama

4. Mother’s Day Quotes for Grandma

“A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” —Unknown
“For myself, one of the sweetest words I have ever heard is ‘Nana’.” – Zelda Rosenbaum
“As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” —Prince William

“It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.” – Christopher Morley
“If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” —Linda Stewart Henley
“A grandma is warm hugs and sweet memories.” —Barbara Cage
“A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.” —Unknown
“A garden of love grows in a grandmother’s heart.” —Unknown

“To all of the grandmothers who make the world more gentle, more tolerant and more safe for our children. Never doubt your importance.” – Mary-Lou Rosengren
“Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.” – Unknown
“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day, and now the day was complete.” – Marcy DeMaree
“You are the sun, Grandma, you are the sun in my life.” – Kitty Tsui
“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next, you are all-wise and prehistoric.” – Pam Brown

“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that’s why the world calls her grand” – Unknown
“There’s no place like home — except Grandma’s.” – Unknown

5. Sweet & Short Mother’s Day Quotes

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” – Jessica Lange
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” James E. Faust
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” — unknown

“Becoming a mother makes you realize you can do almost anything one-handed.” — Unknown
“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” – Amy Tan
“The world needs our mothers.” – Liya Kebede
“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” – Arlene Benedict
“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson