Mother's Day 2024: Quotes by Famous Authors and Poets to Celebrate Motherhood

Mother’s Day is a joyous occasion dedicated to the incredible women who have nurtured and raised us. This year, the occasion falls on Sunday, May 12. The day is dedicated to showing our moms how much we appreciate their boundless love, unwavering support, and countless sacrifices. Whether it’s our mothers, grandmothers, or aunts, they deserve all the appreciation and recognition not only on Mother’s Day but every single day.

Here are some inspiring quotes from famous authors and poets to share with your mother this Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day 2024: Inspirational Quotes

1. “She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to the high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.” – Thomas Hardy
2. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
3. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” – Maya Angelou
4. Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever”- J.K. Rowling
5. “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.” – Maya Angelou
6. “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
7. “So loving to my mother, That he might not between the winds of heaven, Visit her face’ too roughly”- William Shakespeare
8. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
9. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling
10. “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” – Washington Irving.