Mother’s Day is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed in different forms throughout the world.  It is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in today’s world. In the United States, Mother’s Day 2021 was celebrated on Sunday, May 9.

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Below are some quotes that express the meaning of motherhood and how important a mother is in the life of each of her children.

“A Mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.”  - Unknown

“No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional, and strong as a mother's love.”  - Christiane Northrup

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” -Susan Gale

“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

“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” - Unknown

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.”  - Lisa Leslie

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“All that I am, or ever hope to be I owe to my mother.”  - Abraham Lincoln

“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” - Unknown

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” - George Eliot

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.” - Unknown

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” - Victor Hugo                                                                     

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”  - Unknown                                                                                          

“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” - Arlene Benedict

“Nothing is really lost until your mom can’t find it.” - Unknown

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”  - Mark Twain

“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing if the way your Mom told you to do it from the start”.  - Unknown

“Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” - Reed Markham

“To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.” - Unknown

"A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking." - Helen Rice

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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV

She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness. She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness. – Proverbs 31:25-27 NLT

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