"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William Makepeace Thackeray

"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." - Tenneva Jordan

"A mother understands what a child does not say." - Anonymous

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." - Rajneesh

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." - Unknown

"As is the mother, so is her daughter. (Ezekiel 16:4)" - The Bible

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." - Oprah Winfrey

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C Garretty

"Men are what their mothers made them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington