“A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.” — Unknown
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." — George Eliot
“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” — Charley Benetto
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
“Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.” — Leroy Brownlow
"We are born of love; Love is our mother." — Rumi
“Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” — Susan Gale
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth." — Mitch Albom
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." — William Makepeace Thackeray
"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." — Cardinal Meymillod
“My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. ” — Jodi Picoult
"Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother." — Unknown
"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth." — Mitch Albom
"The best place to cry is on a mother's arms." — Jodi Picoult
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
"He didn't realise that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark." — J.K. Rowling
“The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” — James E. Faust
"If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning." — Unknown
“It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?” — Mahatma Gandhi
"There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears." — Sophie Kinsella
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws." — Barbara Kingsolver
“There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.” — Elder M. Russell Ballard
"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." — Maya Angelou
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness." — Jessica Lange
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” — Unknown
"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
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." — Robert Browning
“My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” — Lisa Leslie
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." — Erich Fromm
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then, I want to move in with them." — Phyllis Diller
"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.” — Gilda Radner
"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers." — Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." — Princess Diana