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Mother's Day is in honor of the best Mother who ever lived - the Mother of your heart.
- Anna Jarvis
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Lincoln
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 (1732-1799)
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.
- Andrew Jackson
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
- Robert Browning
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
- Maya Angelou
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller
Children reinvent your world for you.
- Susan Sarandon
I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
- George Eliot
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.
- Erma Bombeck
I have zero problems when people say, 'God, you look like your mother.' I go, 'Well, great! Thanks!'
- Kate Hudson
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe