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

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

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. -Danish Proverb 

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

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family. - Jean Rousseau 

THERE IS A WOMAN AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL GREAT THINGS. 
Alphonse de Lamartine 

There never was a woman like her.  She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... 
The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. -Andrew Jackson 

I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it. -Rose Kennedy 

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 

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it. -George Bernard Shaw 

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 

Because I have been sheltered, fed, By thy good care, I cannot see another's lack And I not share My glowing fire, my loaf of bread, My roof's safe shelter overhead, That he, too may be comforted. -Grace noll Crowell 

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 

The man is the brace and ceiling of his house He is the straight walls rising from the earth, The woman is the golden glow of lamps, The firelight on a hearth. -from Perfect Home, by Emery Petho 

Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. -Clare Boothe Luce 

Dear Mom -- while you were gone Cathy swore and she did not make pop-corn and she was being mean and fighting with us an we did not do a thing and while she was on the fone to her friend she tride to be cool by being a bratt to me and rubbing her feet on the TV and she made fun of me AND she also said: MOVE YOUR FAT FACE!!!!!!!  (from Surviving Motherhood, by Donna LaGorio Montgomery) 

Mom, I love you.  You settle fights, You give me love, You are a delight You are my mom I love you!!! Love, Ginny -(from Surviving Motherhood, by Donna LaGorio Montgomery) 

Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. -Thomas Moore 

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age. -Benjamin Spock 

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. -Oliver Wendell Holmes 

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug. -Cathy Guisewite, Like Mother, Like Daughter 

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. -Spanish proverb 

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. -Plato 

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -Theodore Hesburgh 

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -Erma Bombeck 

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

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

A mother's children are portraits of herself. -Author unknown

A wise woman once said to me: 'There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.  One of these is roots; the other, wings. -Hodding Carter 

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. 
They are the great vacationless class. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh 
Diligence is the mother of good luck. -Benjamin Franklin 

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. -Louisa May Alcott 

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's praryers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. -Abraham Lincoln 

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 

Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone 

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. 
-Honore' de Balzac 

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

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -African proverb 

You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world! -Beaver Cleaver 

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together. -Pearl S.  Buck 

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

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? 
My Mother. -Ann Taylor, My Mother 

Women know The way to rear up children (to be just), They know a merry, simple, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting babies' shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn't getting enough sleep. -John Fiebig 

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children. -Margaret Mead

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. 
A child is a child. 
They get bigger, older, but grown. 
In my heart it don't mean a thing. -Toni Morrison

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. -Maya Angelou

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it. -Mark Twain 

A partnership with God is motherhood. 

A second-grade teacher who had given a lesson on magnets gave a test question: 
What starts with 'M' and picks up things? 
Many of the children wrote, Mother. 

Because I am a mother, I hold God's greatest prize. And He expects great things of me with a task of such a size. - Grace Atkins 

My Mother: when my patience was at the end, hers had just begun. 
David Wesley Soper 

Two worn little shoes with a hole in the toe And why have I saved them?  Well, all mothers know. 
There's nothing so sweet as a baby's worn shoe And patter of little footsteps following you. 
The feet they once held have grown slender and strong; Tonight they'll be tired after dancing so long. 
I guided his feet when he wore such as these; Dear God, may I ask, won't you guide them now, please? 

I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education which I received from my mother. -George Washington 

Home Is Where Mother Is... 
In a Norwegian housing development where all houses looked alike, many little children were having difficulty finding their way home from school. The problem was resolved: mothers attached photographs of themselves to the front doors. 
The Prayer For Everyone . . . 
Go to pray, my daughter, and before all else, pray to God for your Mother; for her who gave you your being, in which the loveliest half of her existence has survived; who sheltered in her womb your young soul, a piece of celestial flame; and dividing life into two parts, she took the bitterness and gave you the honey. -Gabriela Mistral 

I Brought Her Into The World . . . 
A certain mother was known for her willingness to drop her work to go see things with her little daughter.  Mommy, come see the butterfly, or, Look at the ants, Mommy. A friend asked the mother how she could interrupt her work so often and still get things done. Well, the mother replied, I brought her into the world.  The least I can do is let her show it to me. 

A picture memory brings to me; I look across the years and see Myself beside my mother's knee. I feel her gentle hand restrain My selfish moods, and know again A child's blind sense of wrong and pain. But wiser now, a man gray grown, My childhood's needs are better known. My mother's chastening love I own. -John Greenleaf Whittier

Mother Mother, how can I begin to tell you ALL that you mean to me? You are the kind of person that someday I want to be. You have given me your very best; and I want you now to know that because of you my life has been blessed; annd I love you so. 

The noblest calling in the world is that of mother.  True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions.  She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give. -David 0. McKay