Mother's Day Quotes: Beautiful Words to Share with Your Favorite Mom

"Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday." -- Martha Stewart

"A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who’s going to make it a better place?" -- Alexis Stewart

"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

"Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent." -- Matthew Quick

"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's." -- Kifah Shah

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." -- Ann Landers

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends -- but only one mother in the whole world." -- Kate Douglas Wiggin

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." -- Jane Sellman

"My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid." -- Katherine Stinson