"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way."
Andrew Jackson

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vactionless class."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed,deserves the highest honor that man can give."
David 0. McKay

"Motherhood is the greatest potential influence in human society. Her caress first awakens in the child a sense of security; her kiss the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. Thus in infancy and childhood she implants ever-directing and restraining influences that remain through life."
David 0. McKay

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears."
Francis Bacon.

"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 (1732-1799)

Because I am a mother, I hold God's greatest prize. And He expects great things of me with a task of such a size.
Grace Atkins

"A mother's love seems to be the most perfect and most sincere, the strongest of any love we know anything about."
Heber J. Grant

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you'll always find forgiveness."
Honore' de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
Lady Bird Johnson

"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
Marcelene Cox

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

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

"To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens."
Spencer W. Kimbal

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
Washington Irving