Mother’s Day is celebrated in many different countries including the United States, Canada, and India. Each May on the second Sunday of the month millions take the time to honor their mothers. Over the years, many individuals have preserved their thoughts on motherhood for future generations to enjoy.

“Mother’s Day is in honor of the best mother who ever lived- the mother of your heart.”
-Anna Jarvis

“We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.”
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.” -German Proverb

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
-unknown

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
-unknown

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” -Peter de Vries

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” -Chinese Proverb

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac

“Men are what their mothers made them.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And remember that behind every successful woman …is a basket of dirty laundry.”
-unknown

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men- from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” -unknown

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
-Dorothy Fisher

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” -Sophocles

“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

“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.” -George Herbert

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” -Spanish Proverb

“All that I am, my mother made me.”
-John Quincy Adams

“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

“God could not be everywhere, and so He made mothers.” -Jewish Proverb

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” -Lin Yutang

“All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?” -Nancy Thayer

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.”
-Danish Proverb

Showing gratitude for all that a mother has done for her children should be part of everyone’s life on that special day of all days, Mother’s Day. After all, without mothers, no one would be here at all.