Mother’s Day Quotes from Your Favorite Books. Enjoy your day mothers.

I’m author and book lover
I hope you enjoy reading this post!

If you’re like me and love to read, you are at the right place to enjoy hundreds of articles I published since 5 year ago.

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, so I’ve put together this list of literary Mother’s Day quotes from my book and some of your favorite books from world-famous writers, to help you express your sentiments this Mother’s Day. Feel free to use these quotes in cards or letters to your mother on this special day. Or read the quotes for inspiration and write your own letter to your mother.

At a time when we want to celebrate the many roles that mothers and maternal figures play in our lives, our own words can sometimes fail to do our sentiments justice. So, from the hilarious to the heartfelt, so I felt touched to inspire you this day.

The value of mothers has produced thousands of quotes, ranging from ancient proverbs to words uttered by those in positions of power. An avid reader, I turned my attentions to quotes found in literature to find a plethora of inspiring and heartfelt quotes concerning mothers and motherhood. But I will start with quotes from my latest book cited “The Dream from dust” you can get it from here http://amazon.com/dp/B09GVYJ95M/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59421800-the-dream-from-dust

Here are some of my favorites from my book, and later I will share favorites ranging from classic tomes to contemporary novels to celebrate the virtues of our mothers.

On expressing how important my mother was to us

On yearning for survival

On my mother’s religious affiliation

On her giving and helping heart

On how strong she was feeding all of us

On how trustworthy she was to her religion

On how caring she was for us at night.

On her passionate heart

On how passionate she was to her catholic religion

On how I lean on her for most of the times

On how the war shaped their entire life

On lecturing us to trust God in difficult times

On telling us always to pray to God

On teaching us how revenge is costly

On emphasizing us to avoid revenge

On how trusting people we love works

On telling us to work hard

On telling us to learn from history

On emphasizing us how beautiful peace is

On how much they suffered during the war

On how much they suffered during the war

On the unknown estimates of causalities

On how even prominent figures lost their lives

On how we should keep peace

On how to be patient while yearning for change

On how rich people benefit most from change

On believing in time and to keep patience

On how they failed to get where to sleep

On how their rights were removed completely from them

On telling us to work hard

On how worse wars are

On how little the war was covered

Literary Mother’s Day quotes from a child’s perspective

“You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.” –L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams

“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you.” –Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“She taught me what’s important, and what isn’t. And I’ve never forgotten. And that’s what mothers do, I say.” –Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere.” –Peter Abraham, Down the Rabbit Hole

“If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam” –Lord Langdale, Henry Bickersteth

“My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.” –Atom Yang, Red Envelope

“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” –Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

Literary Mother’s Day quotes from a mother’s perspective

“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

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” –Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

General literary Mother’s Day quotes

“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

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” –David C. Gross, Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important in theirs, she has failed. –Erin Kelly, The Burning Air

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you.” –Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning

“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.” –E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
“Mothers are all slightly insane.” –J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” –J.K. Rowling, The Sorcerer’s Stone
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” –William Makepiece Thackaray, Vanity Fair

“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

“Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of the affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.” –Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” –Marion C. Garretty, A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.” –James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generations, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.” –Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“A mother’s love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mothers have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man.” –Jamie McGuire, Eden

“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.” From the Madding Crowd

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” From The Last Séance by Agatha Christie

Funny quotes for Mother’s Day

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.” From The African Queen by C. S. Forester

“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.” Matilda by Roald Dahl

Sweet quotes for Mother’s Day

“She told me then too how she loved me the second I was born. She said it was like she knew me, even though ti was the first time she’d ever seen me. She said I looked really wise and clever when I came out, like I’d been on earth before and could teach her stuff – it sounded mad. But mainly she just wanted to cuddle and look after me. She said meeting me was the happiest moment of her life. Little Big Love by Katy Regan
Mum-love is a fact like that – it just happens, whatever you do, you can’t do anything about it, like rain.”

“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.” From Little Women

“‘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.’” from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

“He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” From Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Sad quotes for Mother’s Day

“And all my mother came into mine eyes. And gave me up to tears.” From King Henry V by William Shakespeare

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” from The Road by Cormac McCarthy

“I didn’t get to grow up and pull away from her and bitch about her with my friends and confront her about the things I’d wished she’d done differently and then get older and understand that she had done the best she could and realize that what she had done was pretty damn good and take her fully back into my arms again. Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had forced me to instantly grow up and forgive her every motherly fault at the same time that it kept me forever a child, my life both ended and begun in that premature place where we’d left off. She was my mother, but I was motherless. I was trapped by her, but utterly alone. She would always be the empty bowl that no one could fill. I’d have to fill it myself again and again and again.” From Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Much has been written of mothers and their impact on our lives. Moms are the ones who love us unconditionally, tend our wounds, nurture our broken hearts and deal with all of life’s sickness — literally and figuratively. At Hooked To Books, we love books and we also love our moms! That’s why we’ve rounded up a collection of the sweetest and most poignant literary quotes about mothers.

“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.” ―Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago

“My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?” ― Barry Deutsch, Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite

“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.” ― Erin Kelly, The Burning Air

“…A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.” ― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller’s Wife

“There’s no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.” ― Steven King, Dolores Clairborne

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” ― Jodi Picoult

“It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.” ― J. M. Barrie, The Adventures of Peter Pan

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” ― David C. Gross, Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs

“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

“This is what we do, my mother’s life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.” — Cammie McGovern, Neighborhood Watch

“I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…” ― Louisa May Alcott, Jo’s Boys

“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

“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that the small flowered pattern was only a little lighter gray than the background. The dress came down to her ankles, and he strong, broad, bare feet moved quickly and deftly over the floor. Her thin, steel-gray hair was gathered in a sparse wispy knot at the back of her head. Strong, freckled arms were bare to the elbow, and her hands were chubby and delicate, like those of a plump little girl. She looked out into the sunshine. Her full face was not soft; it was controlled, kindly. Her hazel eyes seemed to have experienced all possible tragedy and to have mounted pain and suffering like steps into a high calm and a superhuman understanding. She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt and fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. But better than joy was calm. Imperturbability could be depended upon. And from her great and humble position in the family she had taken dignity and a clean calm beauty. From her position as healer, her hands had grown sure and cool and quiet; from her position as arbiter she had become as remote and faultless in judgment as a goddess. She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars” — E.M. Forster, Howard’s End

“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

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.” — Zora Neale Hurston, A Biography of the Spirit

“If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’mine.” — Rudyard Kipling, Mother O’Mine

“Mothers are all slightly insane.” — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

“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

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” — Washington Irving

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“When a child is born the mother also is born again.” — Gilbert Parker, Parables of a Province

“The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother’s eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.” — J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them–on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS,” she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.” — Charlotte Gilman, Herland
“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.” — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“But she named the infant “Pearl,” as being of great price–purchased with all she had–her mother’s only treasure!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepiece Thackaray, Vanity Fair

“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

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.” ― Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” ― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you’ve got, say “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice.” ― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.” ― Marita Golden, Migrations of the Heart

“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, “I choose not to,” or “it all sounds a bit vile, tbh.” We call these women “selfish” The inference of the word “childless” is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves–rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don’t “finish things” properly and have children.” ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies.” ― Bauvard, The Prince Of Plungers

“A mother’s love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother’s love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it’s power.” ― Jamie McGuire, Eden

“Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.” ― Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Hidden House

“She taught me what’s important, and what isn’t. And I’ve never forgotten. And that’s what mothers do, I say.” ― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn’t fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.” ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Motherhood doesn’t have a nationality” ― Melinda Cross, One Hour of Magic

“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

“But behind all your stories is your mother’s story, for hers is where yours begins.” — Mitch Albom, For One More Day

Which quote is your favourite?
Which of these quotes made you smile the most? Perhaps I missed an important quote from your favourite book? Please feel free to join the conversation by leaving your comments below.
Have you seen any good quotes about mothers in the books you are reading? Please list them in the comments!