Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Father’s Day, Siblings Day, and Grandparents Day.In the United States, celebration of Mother’s Day began in the early 20th century. It is not related to the many celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have occurred throughout the world over thousands of years, such as the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria, or the Christian Mothering Sunday celebration (originally a commemoration of Mother Church, not motherhood). However, in some countries, Mother’s Day has become synonymous with these older traditions.The U.S.-derived modern version of Mother’s Day has been criticized (even early on, by its founder Anna Jarvis.) for having become too commercialized…(From Wikipedia)
“Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.” – Sophocles
“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” – Unknown
“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.” – Billy Sunday
“Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.” – Sophocles
“I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.” – Antonio Villaraigosa
“Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.” – Gloria Estefan
“For when a child is born the mother also is born again.” – Gilbert Parker
“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.” – Louisa May Alcott
“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
“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”– Michael Jordan
“As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.”
– Cindy Crawford
“My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that’s gotta be your hero.”– Tim Mcgraw
“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”– Mindy Kaling
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
“My mother is a walking miracle.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
– Emma Stone
“She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great – but how to laugh through it.”– Liza Minellie
“They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.” – M.B. Antevasin
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
“But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” – Mitch Albom
“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 is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” – Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter
“A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.” – Dr Debasish Mridha
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” – Mitch Albom, Author
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”– Princess Diana, Princess of Wales
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?”– Mahatma Gandhi
“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.” – NK Jemisin
“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
“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” –Jewish proverb
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”– George Eliot, Novelist
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
– Theodore Hesburgh
“My mother is a walking miracle.”– Leonardo Dicaprio
“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.”– Jodi Picoult
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling
“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.” – Martina Hingis
