“Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?”
– Donald E. Westlake
“The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
– Stevie Wonder
“When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.”
– Gracie Allen
“There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”
– Billy Sunday
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
– Robert Browning
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
– Isadora Duncan
“Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.”
– Gloria Estefan
“I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.”
– Martina Hingis
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio
“My mom is definitely my rock.”
– Alicia Keys
“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.”
– George Eliot
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
– Erich Fromm
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
– William Makepeace Thackeray
“Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.”
– Sophocles
“A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
– Honore de Balzac
“I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.”
– Antonio Villaraigosa
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
– Victor Hugo
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
– Rudyard Kipling
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
– Theodore Hesburgh
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
– Abraham Lincoln