Sometimes it’s hard to find the words to express just how awesome moms are. Let us do it for you with these quotes from those who said it best.
“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.” — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“The phrase ‘Working Mother’ is redundant.” — Jane Sellman
“She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along.” — Margaret Culkin Banning
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” — Linda Wooten
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside of your body.” — Elizabeth Stone
“Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.” — Lisa Alther
“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” — Jessica Lange
“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
“We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.” — Gregory Nunn
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” — Emily Dickinson
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
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