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

‘God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.’ – Robert Browning

‘The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

‘If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?’ – Milton Berle

‘Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.’ – George Eliot

‘Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.’ – Stevie Wonder

‘Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.’ – Erich Fromm

‘A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.’ – Victor Hugo

‘Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.’ – Sophocles

‘My mother is a walking miracle.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘For when a child is born the mother also is born again.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘My mom is definitely my rock.’ – Alicia Keys

‘My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.’ – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

‘Motherhood is… difficult and… rewarding.’ – Gloria Estefan

‘With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.’ – Isadora Duncan

‘I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa

‘I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.’ – Martina Hingis

‘When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.’ – Gracie Allen

‘Who’s a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?’ – Donald E. Westlake

‘There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.’ – Billy Sunday

‘I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.’ – Henry Ward Beecher