Literary Quotes to Celebrate Mother's Day

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

-Maya Angelou-

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

-Jojo Moyers-

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,’ she whispers. ‘Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”

-Jodi Picoult-

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

-Agatha Christie-

“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-

“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”

-Sophie Kinsella-

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

-Rudyard Kipling-

“When a child is born the mother also is born again.”

-Gilbert Parker-

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.”

-Erin Kelly-

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

-Victor Hugo-

"It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?"

-Mahatma Gandhi-

"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-