The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
- Anonymous

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
- John Erskine

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- Barbara Kingsolver

In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
- Booker T. Washington

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
- Oscar Wilde

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
- Denzel Washington

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

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.
- John S.C. Abbott

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

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

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.
- John S.C. Abbott

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
- Pablo Picasso

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

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

Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.
- Graycie Harmon

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
- John Wilmot