If anyone in our lives deserve to have love quotes dedicated to them, it's our mothers. They not only carried us in their wombs for nine months, but they continue to put up with our craziness.

Here are 14 love quotes that go out to all of the moms of the world -- just in time for Mother's Day.

1. "Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." ~ Marion C. Garretty

2. "So much of what we know of love we learn at home." ~ Author Unknown

3. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." ~ Irish Proverb

4. "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ~ Honore de Balzac

5. "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." ~ Abraham Lincoln

6. "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 who rejoice with us in our sunshine 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

7. "Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see." ~ Pope Paul VI

8. "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." ~ Lin Yutang

9. "Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

10. "Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother." ~ Ann Taylor

11. "Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly... yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to." ~ Sophia Loren

12. "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." ~ Robert Browning

13. "The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best." ~ Hamilton Wright

14. "My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune." ~ Graycie Harmon

Your mother may be the one person who had the most influence on who you became as an adult. For many of us, everything we are we owe in part to our mothers. These 14 love quotes do justice in expressing this fact. Happy Mother's Day!

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