A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. -Washington Irving
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
-Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln
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
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage
This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
~Thomas Moore
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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