Dear Mom, Here Are All The Ways I Appreciate Everything You Do

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

— Amy Tan, amazon.com

“A child embarrassed by his mother,’ she said, ‘is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com

“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 f…”

— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere.”

— Peter Abrahams, amazon.com

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father...Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”

— Louisa May Alcott, thoughtcatalog.com

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

— Martha Gellhorn, thoughtcatalog.com

“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, thoughtcatalog.com

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

— Irish Proverb, thoughtcatalog.com

“You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool mom.”

— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com

“A mother is a person who when seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

— Tenneva Jordan, thoughtcatalog.com

“He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.”

— Kahlil Gibran, thoughtcatalog.com

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

— Rudyard Kipling, thoughtcatalog.com

“I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”

— Mindy Kaling, parade.com

“It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.”

— Bea Arthur, Dorothy, amazon.com

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

— Meryl Streep, parade.com

“My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.”

— Michael Jordan, parade.com

“A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”

— Princess Diana, parade.com

“I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.”

— Chelsea Clinton, parade.com

“When they’ve finished reading, Olivia’s mother gives her a kiss and says, ‘You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway.’ And Olivia gives her a kiss back and says, ‘I love you anyway too.'”

— Ian Falconer, amazon.com

“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.”

— JK Rowling, parade.com

“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, parade.com

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

— Mitch Albom, parade.com

“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, parade.com

“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. 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, parade.com

“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com