Is not a young mother one of the sweetest sights which life shows us? If she has been beautiful before, does not her present pure joy give a character of refinement and sacredness almost to her beauty, touch her sweet cheeks with fairer blushes, and impart I know not what serene brightness to her eyes? - W. M. Thackery
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
~Mark Twain
My mother had a great deal of trouble
with me but I think she enjoyed it.
~ Mark Twain
 There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. - Archibald Thompson
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. -Zora Neale Hurston
I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely. ~Renita Weems
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~Victor Hugo
"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
"I feel that, in the heavens above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'mother"" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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