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20 of the Most Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes

20 of the Most Beautiful Mother’s Day Quotes

By Anna Aguillard

You’ve got the perfect Mother’s Day gift, and a delicious Mother’s Day brunch on the books. But what can you do to show your mom that you really care? How can you possibly put into words your gratitude for your mother’s love? These Mother’s Day sayings perfectly capture a mother’s beautiful love – a perfect message for the perfect Mother’s Day greeting.

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Dorothy, The Golden Girls

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"It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it."

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Jill Churchill

"There’s no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one."

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Lance Conrad

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"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood."

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Tenneva Jordan

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"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."

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Mildred Vermont

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"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure love."

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J.K. Rowling

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“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”

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Robert Browning

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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

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Mark Twain

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"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

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Milton Berle

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"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

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Maya Angelou

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"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."

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How To Make Mother’s Day Paper Napkin Flowers

Cocktail napkins aren’t only for drinks they, also make beautiful flowers! Using scissors and some wire, you’ll quickly have a vase full of them.

Step-by-Step Instructions: Paper Napkin Flowers

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Eudora Welty

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"[Mother] stood, always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place."

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Donna Ball

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"Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is…and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong."

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Agatha Christie

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"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."

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Zora Neale Hurston

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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

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Liza Minellie

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"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."

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Walker Percy

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"My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted."

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Amanda Downum

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"The daughter prays; the mother listens."

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Irish Proverb

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"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

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Alice Walker

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"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

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