Today, as we celebrate mothers, we thought it would be fitting to publish some of our favorite quotes about moms. To all the mothers out there, thanks for what you do.

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

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

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

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”–  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”– James Joyce

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”– unknown

“A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”– Peter De Vries

“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”– Jewish proverb

“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”– Abraham Lincoln

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

“Making a decision to have a child– it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”– Elizabeth Stone

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”– Henry Ward Beecher