• “Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.” ~ Maxim Gorky
• “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” ~ Honore’ de Balzac (1799-1850)
• “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~ W.R. Wallace
• “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• “Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ~ Mark Twain
• Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI
• “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~ Sophocles
• A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb