"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one Mother in the whole world." ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother’s knees… All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. ~ Maya Angelou
Good wombs have borne bad sons. ~ William Shakespeare
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~ Spanish Proverb
Men are what their mothers made them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heart. ~ George Eliot
Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest. ~ Sandy Duncan
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
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. ~ Maya Angelou
Our mothers and grandmothers, some of them moving to music not yet written. ~ Alice Walker
Motherhood is not for the fainthearted. Frogs, skinned knees and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. ~ Danielle Steel, I Love Being a Mom, 2004