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

  — Maya Angelou

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    (1783-1859)

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

— Lin Yutang

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

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

—Henry Ward Beecher

The best academy, a mother’s knee.

James Russell Lowell

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” And the Lord said, “Have you read the specs on this order?”

—Erma Bombeck

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

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

_You may have tangible wealth untold; / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be — / I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillian, Richer Than Gold,

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

— Groucho Marx

_Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

— Phyllis Diller

Making the 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

 

Only a mother would think her daughter has been a good girl when she returns from a date with a Gideon Bible in her handbag.

 — Laurence J. Peter