She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah WinfreyAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliI saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.
ConfuciusA father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington IrvingEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleFor those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SophoclesI blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan RiversI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. ForsterHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker