- A Mother is a person who seeing that there are only four pieces of pie for five people promptly announces she never did care for pie.

- The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

- All mothers are working mothers.

- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

- A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

- A mother understands what a child does not say.

- The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

- Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

- An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

- Nobody knows of the work it makes/to keep the home together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes/ nobody knows but mother.

- If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

- A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

- The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.