Celebrate Your Mom this month! Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 9th, 2020. 

There is simply nothing like a mother’s love. My own mom was simply amazing—she could do just about anything around our house that she made into a home. However,I was an only child and very spoiled. I did not fully appreciate my mother until she died. I was only 19. She was only 50. To this day, I have trouble forgiving myself. I wish I would have been a better daughter.

But this story has a happy turn: I am a mother myself. I, who never thought would be so fortunate found myself looking into the eyes of my beautiful baby 25 years ago. That infant stole my heart. And you know what? That’s okay with me. I love being a mother! Raise your glass: Here’s a toast to all mothers and their children of all ages. Happy Mother’s Day!

Read on for some beautiful quotes….

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”

―Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don’t want their kids … but when you look more closely, you realize that they’re doing those kids a favor. They’re just trying to give them a better life.”

―Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”

―Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water

“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is…and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.”

―Donna Ball, At Home on Ladybug Farm

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

―Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

―Adriana Trigiani, Big Stone Gap

“A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.” 

— MARJORIE HOLMES

“The daughter prays; the mother listens.

— AMANDA DOWNUM, THE DROWNING CITY

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

— AGATHA CHRISTIE

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

– Eric Fromm

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

— Rudyard Kipling

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

– Robert Browning

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

— Rumi

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

– Victor Hugo

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

– Barbara Kingsolver

Photo by Jereoen Bosch

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

– Lauryn Hill

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

– Mahatma Gandhi (read more Mahatma Gandhi quotes)

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

A child’s first teacher is its mother.

– Peng Liyuan

Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.

– Maxim Gorky

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

– Milton Berle

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

— Oscar Wilde (read more Oscar Wilde quotes)

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. – E. M. Forster

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

– John F. Kennedy

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it’s a very powerful relationship if it’s healthy.

– Goldie Hawn

Photo by Janko Ferlic

Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.

— Ali Fazal

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

— N.K. Jemisin

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.” 

— MARGUERITE DURAS

Happy Mother’s Day Beautiful! A special day made for loved ones to think about you and all you have always done for them. God Bless you and keep you tucked safely in angel’s wings as you celebrate this special day! I’m thankful you joined me here for this edition of The Badass Writer.  More on the way, so like us on social media and leave us your comments below!

Blessings,

Connie