Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it in their children.

-Maxim Grosky

Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.

-Susan Gale

My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.

-Lisa Leslie

Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary – it’s an act of infinite optimism.

-Gilda Radner

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

-James E. Faust

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

-Mahatma Gandhi

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

-Maya Angelou

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges, and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

-Jodi Picoult

Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heartthrob.

-Leroy Brownlow

When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

-Charley Benetto

A mother is your first friend, your best friend, your forever friend.

There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood

-Elder M. Russell Ballard