Famous Mother’s Day Quotes

“All I am or can be I owe to my angel Mother.”
-Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
-George Washington, U.S. President

“There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness… The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”
- Andrew Jackson, U.S. President

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
Henry Ward Beecher, US Congressional clergyman

“Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
-Nancy Thayer, author

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
-Honore de Balzac, author