Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

The mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

A good wife is of value only to her husband. A good mother is a national asset.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.