"A man loves his Sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his Mother the longest."

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
--Victor Hugo

"No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones."
--Harry Truman

"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

"When I was a child, 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

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

"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