And for the three magic gifts I needed to escape the poverty of my hometown. I thank my mother who gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase.
Alice Walker

Never do anything or say anything that you would be ashamed to confide to your mother.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
Beverly Jones

 

They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand at them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn’t have gotten through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to
affect them like sunshine.
Louisa May Alcott

All good traits and learnings come
from the mother’s side.
Zora Hurston

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of the mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
Sigmund Freud

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me,
but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain

I thought my mom’s whole purpose was to be my mom.
That’s how she made me feel.
Natasha Gregson Wagner

Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.
Sophocles

If evolution really works, how come mothers still have only two hands?
Ed Dussault

When a mother finally decides to give her daughter some advice, the mother usually learns plenty.
Evan Esur

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln

Slipping on Mother’s old apron is like getting a big hug from her.
Joyce Smith

No man is poor who has a godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln

In the heavens above, the angels, whispering to one another. Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of “Mother.”
Edgar Allan Poe

My Mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me. I felt that I had someone to live for – someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Thomas A. Edison

I wonder where mothers learn all the things they tell their daughters not to do.
Eddie Cantor

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby … they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.
Susan Cheever

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop love for our children before
turning them into teenagers.
William A. Galvin

Don’t aim to be an earthly Saint, with eyes fixed on a star.
Just try to be the fellow that your Mother thinks you are.
Will Sadkin

Who ran to help me when I fell.
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor

There never was a child so lovely but his mother
was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
I loved her dearly.
Winston Churchill

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – A heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
Mark Twain

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest, and most lasting teacher her children have.
Hannah Whitall Smith

When I was a boy, my mother and I would make eye contact, and she would give me a smile that would make my day. Her eyes and her smile would say, “I love you, you’re terrific.”
She was the center of my universe, and, like most children, I thought I had the most wonderful mother in the world. I adored her.
Bob Keeshan

The process of shaping the child … shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.
Elisabeth Elliot

My mother was the source from which I derived
the guiding principles of my life.
John Wesley

Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.
Proverbs 31:29