That best academy, a mother’s knee. – James Russell Lowell

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love. – Thomas C. Haliburton