“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough f…”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com
“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere.”— Peter Abrahams, amazon.com
“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father...Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”— Martha Gellhorn, thoughtcatalog.com
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”— Kristin Hannah, thoughtcatalog.com
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”— Irish Proverb, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool mom.”— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com
“A mother is a person who when seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”— Tenneva Jordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.”— Kahlil Gibran, thoughtcatalog.com
“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, parade.com
“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”— Bea Arthur, Dorothy, amazon.com
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”— Meryl Streep, parade.com
“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, parade.com