Mums – so great they’re celebrated twice – this year on 31 March in the UK and 12 May in the US, Australia and beyond.
We know Mother’s Day has a tendency to creep up on you. So HuffPost Finds has rounded up some gorgeous cards, flowers and presents to help you treat your mum this Sunday. But if you want to express your eternal gratitude in words (or simply post a shameless selfie of the two of you on Instagram), we know a little inspiration from others can be just what you need.
From Michelle Obama’s words on bossing motherhood to J.K. Rowling’s moving lines to a mum departed, we hope these quotes help you celebrate yours.
“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.”
Nayyirah Waheed
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
George Eliot
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
Oprah Winfrey
“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.”
Amy Tan
“Being Mum-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.”
Michelle Obama
“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.”
Lady Gaga
“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
“A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
Sophia Loren
“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If I could do half as good a job as my mum did, I’d be pretty happy.”
Jennifer Garner
“Once you’re a mum, you’re always a mum. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.”
Taraji P. Henson
“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”
Princess Diana
“Motherhood: all love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning
“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