My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I…

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

— Pearl S. Buck

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

— Washington Irving

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is…

— Helen Steiner Rice

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

— Edwin Arnold

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

— Maya Angelou

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillilan

“This woman saw the gospel—that you’re more wicked than you ever believed, but at the same time more loved and accepted than you ever…

— Timothy Keller

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

— Mark Twain

...she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it…

— Joanne Fluke

“For years at a time, there was me, and the woman I saw myself as while living in my head, and the woman who…

— Roxane Gay

“He no sooner saw the woman than he saw the aftermath of her - his marriage proposal and her acceptance, the home they would…

— Howard Jacobson

“What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength…

— Elizabeth George

Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely…

— Charles Spurgeon

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

— Billy Sunday

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In…

— Toni Morrison