My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

Christian Morgenstern

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln