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

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
...Jewish proverb

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which
you will always find forgiveness."
...Honore' de Balzac

"The most important thing a father can do for his children
is to love their mother."
...Author Unknown

"Nobody knows of the work it makes To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes, Nobody knows-but Mother."
...Anonymous

"Making the decision to have a child-it's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart
go walking around outside your body."
...Elizabeth Stone

"All I am or can be I owe to my angel Mother."
...Abraham Lincoln

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
...Henry Ward Beecher

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
...P.J. O'Rourke

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."
...Garrison Keillor