Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and
sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of
prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine,
desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to
us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate
the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving

Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their
tragedy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverb

As is the mother, so is her daughter
Ezekiel 16:44 (The Bible)

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets
worn out, Monsieur.
Albert Camus

Indeed, my mother?s beautiful face still shone with youthfulness
that night when she so softly held my hands and sought to stop
my tears; but, precisely, it seemed to me that this should not have
happened, her anger would have saddened me less than this new
sweetness that my childhood had never known; it seemed to me
that, with a hidden and impious hand, I had just traced the first
wrinkle and made appear the first grey hair in her soul.
Marcel Proust


A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep
soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but
reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honoré de Balzac

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

No one is poor who had a godly mother
 Abraham Lincoln

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.