Mother’s Day 2015 UK Quotes: 20 Inspirational Sayings From Celebrities And Historical Figures

Some American Twitter users were surprised Sunday when “Happy Mother’s Day” became a top-trending topic. For those who worried, there’s no need. Mother’s Day is celebrated two months earlier in the United Kingdom.

To celebrate the U.K.’s 2015 Mother’s Day, some inspirational and loving quotes that celebrities and historical figures have said have been shared below, courtesy of Brainy Quote and Parade.

1. “My mother is a walking miracle.” –Leonardo DiCaprio

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

3. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” –Abraham Lincoln

4. “The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga

6. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” —George Washington

7. “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson

8. “Because I feel that, in the Heavens above / The angels, whispering to one another, / Can find, among their burning terms of love / None so devotional as that of ‘Mother’” —Edgar Allen Poe

9. “My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.” —Stephen King

10. “You sacrificed for us. You’re the real MVP.” —Kevin Durant

11. “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

12. “Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep

13. “It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.” —Dorothy from "The Golden Girls"

14. “Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.” —Kate Winslet

15. “[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.” —Lupita Nyong’o

16. “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” —J.K. Rowling

17. “I tell my kids, ‘I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.’” —Michelle Obama

18. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.” —Princess Diana

19. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” —Oprah Winfrey

20. “She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great—but how to laugh through it.” —Liza Minnelli (about mother Judy Garland)

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