Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.
Sophocles
Mother's Day
No matter where I go, you'll always be my mother.
Tarzan
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
Khalil Gibran
It's the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
Erma Bombeck
Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.
Young Charlie
Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.
Eric Draven
Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science.
Melinda M. Marshall
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
Rebecca West
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore De Balzac
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore De Balzac
I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face: it was so near to me, and her arms were round me, and she sang to me.
George Eliot
You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a Mother who read to me.
Strickland Gillilan
I’m going to see my mom. She’s a big mucky-muck in the county school system. She’s my hero. How do I explain her? She’s as respected as Mother Theresa, she’s as powerful as Stalin, and she’s as beautiful as Margaret Thatcher.
Leslie Knope
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.
Erma Bombeck