No gift to your mother can every equal her gift to you — life.

—anonymous

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.              —Maya Angelou

I really learned it all from mothers.               —Dr Benjamin Spock

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.   —Oscar Wilde

The best academy, a mother’s knee.            —James Russell Lowe

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.         —James Joyce

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.           —Peter De Vries

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.                                 —Phyllis Diller

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.                                                  —Rajneesh

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

 —Jewish Proverb

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.     —William Makepeace Thackeray

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.                                                                          —Sophia Loren

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.        —Barbara Kingsolver

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

 —Marion C. Garretty