My mum and I have a great relationship. We talk about pretty much anything, and who knows where I would be without her, but when it comes to Mother’s Day I can spend hours scouring the card racks for a verse or quotes that says “Thanks for everything” in a way that reflects our relationship. We don’t really DO hearts and flowers, or cute teddies, or elaborate verse. So I have turned to the internet to find some words that I can add to a card (sans flowery verse) of my own, Mother's Day quotes and observations that will bring a smile to her face and let her know I appreciate how important the role of a mother is.

Here are some Mother's Day quotes for your own help and inspiration:

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.

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands! - A kind of mad courage.

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

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

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

How much I wish I could tell you, Mum

How much you mean to me....
But there are no words to say
How much I admire you...
appreciate you...
thank you for everything you've done.
Love you
actually, there are
I've just used them
Happy Mother's Day

Mother,
you’ve given me two things
One is roots
the other's wings

~ Author Unknown.

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"Motherhood is like Albania-- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there."

"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing."

They joys of motherhood are never fully experienced until the children are in bed.

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