This year, National Son’s Day falls on Saturday, September 28.

The annual celebration is intended as a day to recognize the importance of having a son or being one, and is the perfect opportunity to let someone you love know how much he or she is appreciated.

Although National Sons Day stays a little more under the radar than, say, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, it’s still an important holiday and a good reminder to let your son or other special person in your life know you’re thinking of him or her.

To help you, we’ve collected a list of National Sun Day quotes to express your most sincere wishes this year.

In the collection below you will find meaningful messages spoken or written by celebrities such as Maya Angelou, Dr. Seuss and EE Cummings, as well as moving sentiments from beloved children’s stories, including Robert Munsch’s memorable, “I will love you forever, I will love you forever.” I will always love you, as long as I live, my baby, you will be” from the book “Love You Forever.”

Looking for words to show how proud you are of the person they have become? Use these inspiring words from John Green: “I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of myself. I hope you know that.”

You can also quote Phil Collins’ classic song “You’ll Be in My Heart,” the hit single from the animated film “Tarzan.”

Text one of these thoughtful quotes or post them to Instagram. Whatever you decide to share, it will remind someone close to you that there is simply no one better when it comes to sons.

National Son’s Day Quotes and Wishes

• “And she loved a little boy very much – even more than herself.” — Shel Silverstein, “The Giving Tree”
• “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving, strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou

• “I will love you forever, I will love you forever, as long as I live, you will be my baby.” – Robert Munsch, ‘I Love You Forever’
• “In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine. – Maya Angelou
• “You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.” – E. E. Cummings
• “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” –Dr. Seuss

• “Being a mother to a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, and raise them to be kind.” –Shannon L. Alder
• “No one has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
• “I will take care of you and I will take care of anyone you say needs to be taken care of in any way. I’m here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.” – Maya Angelou
• “Our sons are growing and changing, sometimes before our eyes, and we can hardly keep up with their active, curious nature.” –Gregory L. Jantz
• “All our sons leave home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways no other human can. They can teach us how to live our lives better. If we hold on long enough and love them always, they will come back to us.” — Meg Meeker, “Strong Mothers, Strong Sons”

• “You have my whole heart. You always did that. You are the best guy. You always were.” – Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Road’
• “We only know the love of a parent when we become parents ourselves.” —Henry Ward Beecher
• “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” —Jan Houten
• “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they will turn out to be heroes, even if only in your own eyes.” —Walter M. Schirra Sr.
• “If I know what love is, it’s because of you.” — Herman Hessen
• “Sons always have a rebellious desire to be disillusioned by what charmed their fathers.” –Aldous Huxley

• “Yet now I held in my arms a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man. I can’t imagine that soft little face one day having sideburns.’ – Rhonda Stoppe
• “I like you just the way you are.” – Fred Rogers
• “It is a happy thing to be the father of many sons.” — William Shakespeare, “Henry VI”
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares everything and ruthlessly crushes everything in its path.” – Agatha Christie
• “Men pass before our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a short season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful and smart. Philip Pullman, ‘The Golden Compass’
• “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, just as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu

• “When you were too little to say hello to me, I knew you were someone I wanted to get to know.” — Emily Winfield Martin, “The Wonderful Things You Will Be”
• ‘Cause you’ll be in my heart, yes, you’ll be in my heart. From this day, now and forever.” Phil Collins, “You will be in my heart”
• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; it is the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.” —Marcel Proust
• “I may not always be with you, but when we are far apart, remember that you will be with me, right in my heart.” — Marc Wambolt, “Poems from the heart”
• “The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.” – Sarah Shahi
• “I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of myself. I hope you know that.” – John Green, “Will Grayson, Will Grayson.”
• “Sons are born to make their fathers better men.” – Mekael Shane