God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

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.

A mother is a person who sees only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

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

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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 trouble thickens 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.

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

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

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

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.