Mother's day is a special time to think about and express gratitude to mothers everywhere. It is a day set aside to give mothers a special treat.

On this special day, every year thousands of children make their own Mother's Day card. These are made with great love and care and often treasured by mothers long after their children have grown up and left home.

But if you are short of words, here are some inspirational and heart touching quotes from writers from all over the world who have expressed their feelings and love to their mothers.

• 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. -Agatha Christie
• What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? - Louisa May Alcott (Littler Women, 1868)
• A mother is someone who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take - Unknown
• An ounce of a mother is worth a pound of clergy - Spanish Proverb
• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still - Nancy Friday
• Motherhood: All love beginsand ends thee. -Robert Browning
• The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother. - Napoleon Bonaparte
• A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Anyone who doesn't miss the pass never had a mother. - Gregory Nunn
• Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.- Amos Bronson Alcott

• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honore de Balzac
• All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. - Abraham Lincoln
• A mother's love is something we keep locked deep in our hearts, always knowing it will be there to comfort us. - Harmony Ferrario
• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. -Kahil Gibran
• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo
• 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
• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother - Oprah Winfrey
• God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.- Jewish Proverbs
• 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

• Mothers hold their children hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Anonymous
• The role of a mother is probably the most important career a woman can have. -Janet Mary Riley
• A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled - Emily Dickinson
• A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. - Irish Proverb
• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. - Edwin H Chapin
• Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
• I remember my mother's prayers, and they have always followed me. They clung to me all my life- Abraham Lincoln
• Mother: that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. - T. DeWitt Talmage
• Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare, to lessen or misunderstand. -Helen Hunt Jackson
• Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."  -Ezek 16:44