Mother’s Day special: 10 famous literary quotes that honour moms
Many countries around the world are celebrating Mother’s Day today on May 11th, 2025. While a mother should be respected, appreciated and loved throughout the year, Mother’s Day allows children and mothers to spend a day that is just for them, where they can spend time together and enjoy one of the most unique bonds of life.
Mother’s Day: A celebration of love
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Mother’s Day is not just a day to honour a woman for being a mother and doing all she does in that role. It also recognises her sacrifices and her decision to brave pain and challenges in order to give birth. This day honours a woman’s choice to become a mother and bring life into the world.Becoming a mother is a choice, not merely a responsibility and when a woman makes that decision, she commits to dedicating her life to others beyond herself. Life changes after becoming a mom for the better, yes, but it does change. A mother takes on not just her own well-being, but the emotions, needs, and lives of her children.That’s why Mother’s Day carries with it a deep and well-deserved message of gratitude to moms across the world. The day came into being because of a devoted daughter, Anna Jarvis, who first celebrated Mother’s Day in 1908 in West Virginia to honour her late mother and the love and dedication mothers show to their children.In 1914, US President Woodrow Wilson officially declared Mother’s Day a national holiday, to be observed on the second Sunday of May each year.
10 famous literary quotes that honour moms
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When you sit to write or express, who better to dedicate your words to than your own mom, who taught you the basics of holding a pen or pencil? Many famous people across time have written and spoken some deeply felt and emotional quotes about moms and their love. Below are 10 literary quotes that you can share with your mom to wish her a happy Mother’s Day.“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” — Jodi Picoult.“Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of “Mother,” Therefore by that dear name I long have called you— You who are more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts” — Edgar Allan Poe, To My Mother.“If I was damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’mine.” — Rudyard Kipling, Mother O’Mine.“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair.“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.” ― Donna Ball, At Home on Ladybug Farm.“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.“We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi.“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” — Princess Diana.“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln.“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” —St. Therese of Lisieux
