Today is Mother's Day in the United States. People all across the country will celebrate their moms and mother-like figures in their lives.
To celebrate, Newsweek has compiled 20 quotes from Good Housekeeping, BrainyQuote, and Wikiquote in honor of mothers across the country.
"He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark."-J.K. Rowling
"Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary — it's an act of infinite optimism."-Gilda Radner
"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."-Abraham Lincoln
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."-Rudyard Kipling
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."-Princess Diana
"Children are the anchors that hold mothers to life."-Sophocles
"Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you."-Joan Rivers
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."-Cardinal Mermillod
"If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it."-Carrie Fisher
"As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others."-Zig Ziglar
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."-Harriet Beecher Stowe
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his."-Oscar Wilde
"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."-Lisa Leslie
"How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better."-Timothy Shay Arthur
"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."-Stevie Wonder
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."-William Makepeace Thackeray
"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."-Erma Bombeck
"The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry."-Billy Graham
"Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding."-Gloria Estefan
"My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters."-Michelle Obama
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