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

"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after." - Peter De Vries

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." - W R Wallace

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." - Sofia Loren

"Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship in sail, a woman after he birth of her child." - Irish Proverb

"You never get over being a child, long as you have a mother to go to." - Sarah Orne Jewett

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Unknown

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." - Irish Proverb

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." - Honore de Balzac