Mothers Day Best Quotes Wishes 2022 | Mother & Father of Mother’s Day!

This article on “Mother’s Day Best Quotes & Wishes | Who is the Mother & Father of Mother’s Day [Explained]” is my attempt to show my respect and love to all mothers who are those invisible glue that holds the family together. They are the greatest teacher of Compassion, Acceptance, Love, Tolerance, Strength and Bravery. The one who loves you even before seeing you; who loves you with all your mistakes and for whom you truly are.

This, its rightly said “A person is lost in life only when his/her mother cannot find him/her anymore”.

A Mother is the only one who understands a child even when he/she says nothing; someone who is your best friend and guide.

Her hand may hold you for a while, but you remain in her heart forever.

To the entire world she is just a mother but to a family, she is Their World. She is the Wonder woman; the person to whom we resort to when life is not going well, for comfort.

There is some magic in mothers lap, life just gets back on track, and we feel re-energized.

Who is a Mother ?

I believe that Mother is a verb; actions done with selfless dedication and love.

Robert A. Heinlein has rightly said: “Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation”.

Amit Kalantri once said:“A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life”.

Apart from my biological mother; i being married have mother-in-law who loves and cares for me with as much compassion and kindness as my mother. If I am lucky, someday i might have a girl child who will “verb” as my mother when i get old.

This magnanimous love is what accurately defines “a Mother”.

Top 5 Quotes To Define Mother

“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

“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 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

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” – Archibald Thompson

“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.” – N.K. Jemisin

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” – Rumi

Who first celebrated Mother’s Day ?

In history, the Greeks and the Romans of ancient times were the first people to celebrate Mother’s Day by worshiping Goddess Rhea and Cybelle.

Who is Father of Mother’s Day?

Francis Earle Hering is known as the “Father of Mother’s Day”.According to an article in the Douglas Daily Dispatch May 10, 1930, he had been awarded a medal by the American War Mothers bearing the title: “Father of Mother’s Day“.

You can see the copy of the certificate on this website: http://www.archives.nd.edu/about/news/index.php/2011/the-father-of-mothers-day/

When did Francis Earle Hering propose the Mother’s Day?

On the leap year of 1904, February 7, Francis Earle Hering proposed the idea of “setting aside of one day in the year as a nationwide memorial to the memory of Mothers and motherhood” to an audience of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Indianapolis.He was a former football coach and faculty member at the University of Notre Dame.

Who is Mother of Mother’s Day?

Anna Jarvis is known as the “Mother of Mother’s Day”. She took the initiative to appreciate her mother and celebrate Mother’s Day, three years after her death, at St Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

She herself could not attend it, but she did send a telegram to the attendees, highlighting the importance of the day along with five hundred white carnations.

Anna Jarvis efforts ultimately turned this day in the United States as the first modern holiday to celebrate Mother’s Day in 1908.

But, the way modern day Mother’s Day was commercialized made her feel sad. She once said, and i quote:

“To have Mother’s Day the burdensome, wasteful, expensive gift day that Christmas and other special days have become, is not our pleasure,…”

“If the American people are not willing to protect Mother’s Day from the hordes of money schemers that would overwhelm it with their schemes, then we shall cease having a Mother’s Day—and we know how.”

What is the flower of Mother’s Day?

The white carnation were Anna Jarvis mother’s favorite flower and thus it was the original flower of Mother’s Day.

When Mother’s Day is celebrated?

The International Mother’s Day is celebrated in most country on the second Sunday of May every year but the dates vary from country to country. For reference Mother’s Day date for this year and coming year are on May 9, 2021, and then on May 8, 2022.

Wikipedia has the complete list. You can check there for your country or to know about other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the_world

Personally, I feel every day should be celebrated as Mother’s Day to appreciate the unpaid tireless work our mothers do. 

Top 10 Quotes on Mother by Famous Personalities

“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” – Pablo Picasso

“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” – Stevie Wonder

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” – Kahil Gibran

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

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm

“Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.” – Amit Ray

“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the every day.” – Martha Stewart

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo

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

“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 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

What’s the manual for Life?

I believe that Life doesn’t come with a manual. All it comes with is a mother. So, the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be delegated even when with the present day options like pre-nursery or babysitters.

Mother’s influence during these crucial formative years is what forms the basic character of a child. He/She experiences Love, Faith, Compassion, Acceptance, Tolerance and Strength that provides the foundation character.

Home is the place where the child learns this observing his/her Mother. She becomes the example of righteousness. Someone whose arms and heart is always open, even when she is tired or ill.

“Without you there would be no me.

I am everything reflected in your eyes.

I am everything approved by your smile.

I am everything born of your guidance.

I am me only because of you.” — Richelle E

How to wish Mother with Mother’s Day Quotes/Wishes ?

Just say to them, voice call, Video call or personally, how you say doesn’t matter. Expensive gifts or out of the box celebration is not what they want. All they want is some of your time and love so please give them that.

The Best Gift on Mother’s Day?

The greatest gift you can give to our mother is our time. To add to this, if you physically can, do make a cup of tea/coffee for her in the morning; hug her tightly; say your words {don’t copy and paste from internet/WhatsApp} and ask her to take rest for today and you will do her duty.

That’s it, I believe this the biggest, priceless gift that will bring smile on her face.

If you have time, you can make some Origami Flowers for her. You can definitely buy fresh/natural flowers; but if you make one that’s more valuable because you have given your time and labor on it, and that is priceless. 

What makes Mother “The Best” ?

I believe it’s because she listens to us, patiently, without being judgmental.She doesn’t say “I told you so” just to prove her right. She cares without wanting anything in return. She is always there, no matter what. She cleans all our mess without a sweat of tiredness when she is ill. That’s Mother; “OUR GOD ON EARTH”

Aligned with Milton Berle thinking, I too wonder:

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

Is Mother’s Day a Public Holiday?

Mother’s Day is not a public holiday. In most country, The International Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year but the dates vary from country to country.

Best Mother’s Day Wishes.

100+ Mothers Day Best Quotes Wishes For You To Share With Your Mother.

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” Lisa Alther

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

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” Spanish Proverb

“A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have.” Robert Brault

“In the end, mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” Randy Susan Meyers

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

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

“We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi

“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

“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning.” – Unknown

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

“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” – Honore de Balzac

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

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

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“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

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” -William Makepeace Thackeray

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

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” – Cardinal Meymillod

“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” – Unknown

“The best place to cry is on a mother’s arms.” – Jodi Picoult

“If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.” – Booker T. Washington

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” – Susan Gale

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

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.” Erma Bombeck

“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” Jane Sellman

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then, I want to move in with them.” Phyllis Diller

“Any mother could do the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease” Lisa Alther

“If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?” Milton Berle

“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” Chinese Proverb

“Mom, I love you, even though I’ll never accept your friend request.” Unknown

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” Cardinal Mermillod

“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” Honore de Balzac

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” Elaine Heffner

“In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” Adrienne Rich

“Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.” – Martha Stewart

“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

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

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” Laura Stavoe Harm

“If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” Stevie Wonder

“My mother is a walking miracle.” Leonardo DiCaprio

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” Jewish proverb

“The world needs our mothers.” Liya Kebede

“A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go.” Unknown

“There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” Saleem Sharma

“Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.” Unknown

“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” Erich Fromm

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure love.” Mildred B. Vermont

“When you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” Mitch Albom

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” Jill Churchill

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” Archibald Thompson

“A mother’s love is everything. 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

“A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.” Proverbs

“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” Unknown

“The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” Henry Ward Beecher

“To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.” Unknown

“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” St. Therese of Lisieux

“Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” Marion C. Garretty

“Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” Lady Gaga

“To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” Arlene Benedict

“A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” Lance Conrad

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” Lin Yutang

“Mothers can look through a child’s eyes and see tomorrow.” Reed Markham

“Mother that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.” T. Dewitt Talmage

“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

“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had.” Linda Wooten

“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.” Mabel Hale

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” Edwin Chapin

“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” Charley Benetto

“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” Leroy Brownlow

“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” Susan Gale

“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

“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” Robert Browning

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” William Makepeace Thackeray

“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” James E. Faust

“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” Mahatma Gandhi

“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” Elder M. Russell Ballard

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

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” George Eliot

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

“We are born of love; love is our mother.” Rumi

“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” Kahil Gibran

“There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother.” Sara Josepha Hale

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

“All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” Abraham Lincoln

“A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” Amy Tan

“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” Emily Dickinson

“A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” Debasish Mridha

“It’s such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother that’s why the world calls her grandmother.” Unknown

“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a grandmother.” Unknown

“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 life without her.” Kristin Hannah

“Everything I am, you helped me to be.” Unknown

“Grandmothers are the people who take delight in hearing babies breathing into the telephone.” Unknown

“Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.” Unknown

“A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.” Unknown

“Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special. ” Catherine Pulsifer

“Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while…but our hearts forever. ” Unknown

“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.” Italian Proverb

“My grandmother is my angel on earth. ” Catherine Pulsifer

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.” Marcy DeMaree

“I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.” Andre Leon Talley

“There’s no place like home except Grandma’s.” Unknown

“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” Unknown

“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.” Maxim Grosky

“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” Lisa Leslie

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

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” Maya Angelou

“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

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External Resources For Mothers Day Best Quotes Wishes

• https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day
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• https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/echoes-as-nd-as-football-mother-s-day-and-community-service/
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• https://www.post-gazette.com/uncategorized/2008/05/11/For-the-mother-of-Mother-s-Day-it-s-just-never-been-right/stories/200805110164
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day
• https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/13/us/mothers-day-anna-jarvis-trnd/index.html
• https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/10/nietzsche-wishes-you-an-ambivalent-mothers-day/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the_world
• https://youtu.be/LFHGsHdY8w4
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