"A kiss from my mother made me a painter"
~Benjamin West
"As for the mother, her very name stands for loving unselfishness and self-abnegation and in any society fit to exist, it is fraught with associations which render it holy."
~Theodore Roosevelt "The word 'Mother' conjures up cozy visions of homespun family life: Mother baking cookies, mother sympathetically listening to your tragedies, mother as your champion."
~ Victoria Secunda
 "The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God."
~Helen Hunt Jackson
"All mothers are rich when they love their children. there are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. their love is always the most beautiful of joys." ~Maurice Maeterlinck
"A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us..." ~Washington Irving
Who ran to help me when I fell,
and would some pretty story tell,
or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~ Jane Taylor "Mothers are always there for you to listen, a shoulder to cry on, an ear, a voice." ~anonymous "What tigress is there that does not purr over her young ones, and fawn upon them with tenderness?"
~ St. Augustine | 
