In present times, when life is very busy and fast, we often ignore our mothers and take their love for granted. Just because they are always there for us, we tend to undervalue them. It is very important to value and appreciate every person who loves us; mothers being on top of the list. This Mother’s Day, let’s take a moment to pause and think about all the love, affection and sacrifices of our mothers. Let’s wish them, appreciate them and make them feel valued through these 15 meaningful quotes by famous authors. 1. "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not."
(James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
2. "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)
3. "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, The Last Séance)
4. "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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
5. "She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises."
(Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd)
6. “When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
(C.S. Forester, The African Queen)
7. "It's a funny thing about mothers... Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful."
(Roald Dahl, Matilda)
8. "The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter."
(Louisa May Alcott, Little Women)
9. “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit? ’Nothing, precious,’ she said; ‘they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.”
(J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan)
10. “And all my mother came into mine eyes. And gave me up to tears.”
(William Shakespeare, King Henry V)
11. “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's 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, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
12. “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)
13. "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
(E.M. Forster, Howard's End)
14. "Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you."
(L. M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams)
15. "Because I feel that in the heavens above
The angels, whispering one to another,
Can find among their burning tears of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”
Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you,
You who are more than mother unto me.”
( Edgar Allen Poe, To My Mother)
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