Quotes on Moms

All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel Mother."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"God could not be everywhere and
therefore he made mothers."
-- Jewish proverb

"Of all the rights of women,
the greatest is to be a mother."
-- Lin Yutang

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the
bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
-- Honore' de Balzac

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.
All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success
in life to the moral, intellectual and physical
education I received from her."
-- George Washington

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only
workers who do not have regular time off.
They are the great vacationless class."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have
always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"The most important thing a father can
do for his children is to love their mother."
--Author Unknown

"Men are what their mothers made them."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap."
--Danish Proverb

"Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world;
her glory is in the esteem of her husband;
her pleasures in the happiness of her family."
-- Jean Rousseau

"The story of a mother's life:
Trapped between a scream and a hug."
-- Cathy Guisewite, "Like Mother, Like Daughter"

"Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking
around outside your body."
-- Elizabeth Stone

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