“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” - Mitch Albom
"I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful." - Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." - Agatha Christie, The Last Séance
"Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us."
- Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” - Victor Hugo
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To the world, you are a mother. To a family, you are the world." - unknown