"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish proverb

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." - Henry Ward Beecher

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." - Abraham Lincoln

"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 troubles thicken 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

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man - George Eliot

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons - Nepoleon Bonaparte

That best academy, a mother's knee - James Russell Lowell

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not - James Joyce

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

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

"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

"Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children." - Maxim Gorky

A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation - Mark Twain

A mother understands what a child does not say - Jewish proverb

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love." - Mildred B. Vermont

"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate." - Charlotte Gray

"Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own." - Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." - Abraham Lincoln

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

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. -Henry Bickersteth

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. -T. DeWitt Talmage

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. -Chinese Proverb

Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children. -Brandon Lee

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother -- it is hardly an exaggeration." - Olive Schreiner

"Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother." - Jane Welsh Carlyle