Mother's Day quotes, poems, and loving words are perfect for adding to gifts, cards and flowers for Mother's Day. Mom's special day can be even more special with a Mother's day gift of sweet words. Adding these loving words, quotations and poetry is free to add to a homemade card or gift tag.
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
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. - Attributed to Claudia Ghandi
My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. - Graycie Harmon
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. - Henry Ward Beecher
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. - Irish Proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. - Mildred B. Vermont
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. - Rajneesh
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. - Archibald Thompson
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. - T. DeWitt Talmage
Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
- Anne Taylor
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
- George Cooper
Your arms were always open when I needed a hug.
Your heart understood when I needed a friend.
Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson.
Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
- Sarah Malin
On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines:
You're my mother, I would have no other!
- Forest Houtenschil
For other ways to show love, fondness, friendship, also see Sweet Love Words: Valentine Quotes, The Meanings of Colors of Roses, and Great Thinkers' Friendship Quotes.
Also see this Mother's Day website for great gift ideas for Mom and more.