Loking for a nice quote for your mom’s Mother’s Day card, or simply want to reflect on the miraculous strength and wisdom of mothers? Read on for 75 inspiring quotes about motherhood from actors, writers, singers and CEOs—many of whom know a thing or two about being moms.
1. “Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.” —Tina Fey
2. “There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.” —Pamela S. Nadav
3. “Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” —Maria Shriver
4. “[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
5. “In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.” —Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
6. “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill
7. “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
8. “Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”—Toni Morrison
9. “Kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.”—Barbara Kingsolver
10. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”—James E. Faust
Read the full list at Parade.com