Let’s celebrate Mother's Day by reading some powerful and compelling quotes from well-known literary figures.
In honour of Mother’s Day, we've curated a collection of powerful quotes by famous writers that beautifully capture the essence of maternal love and strength. Let’s read about the wisdom and insight offered by these renowned voices, reflecting on the profound impact mothers have on our lives.
Far From the Madding Crowd
By Thomas Hardy
‘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.’
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
‘To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow.’
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The Last Séance
By Agatha Christie
‘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.’
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The African Queen
By CS Forester
‘When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.’
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Matilda
By Roald Dahl
‘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.’
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Little Big Love
By Katy Regan
‘She told me then too how she loved me the second I was born. She said it was like she knew me, even though it 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 in her life.’
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Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott
‘The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quiently 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.’
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
By JK Rowling
‘He didn’t realise that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.’
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