Only mothers can think of the future,
because they give birth to it in their children.
- Maxim Gorky (Russian dramatist and novelist, 1868 - 1936)

The mother is a matchless beast.
- James Kelly (Scottish poet)

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.
- Abraham Lincoln (16th US president, 1809 - 1865)

The only mothers it is safe to forget on
Mother's Day are the good ones.
- Mignon McLaughlin (US journalist, 1915 - )

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones --- otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (German philosopher, 1844 - 1900)

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices,
begin enlisting the mothers.
- Charles Simmons (American clergy and litterateur, 1798 - 1856)