Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back…

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

— George Washington

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

— Anonymous

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

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

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

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

— Pearl S. Buck

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

— Bob Hope

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

— Rajneesh

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

— Booker T. Washington

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

No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

— Bernadette Peters

In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

— William Shakespeare

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

— John Milton

“As in all things, the Savior set the perfect example in the love He showed for His earthly mother. In the final, most pivotal…

— Bradley D. Foster