1. MOTHERS - EVERYWHERE

2. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

3. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

4. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck

5. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

6. That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell

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

8. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over. ~George Cooper

9. "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." -- Agatha Christie

10. "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." -- Aristotle

11. "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

12. "Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character." -- Hosea Ballou

13. “ No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you - life”

14. “ A mother understands what a child does not say.”

15. "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." --William Makepeace Thackeray

16. "Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing." -- Toni Morrison

17. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -- Theodore Hesburgh

18. "Men are what their mothers made them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso

20. "Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

21. "Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world." -- Kate Douglas Wiggin