1.God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling 2. All that I am, or hope to be, I own to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln 3. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. James Joyce, Portrait of an Artist as a Yong Man 4. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. 5. A mother love, - how sweet name!/ What is a mother's love?/ A noble, pure, and tender flame,/Enkindled from above James Montgomery 6. A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo 7. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray 8. Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm 9. There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. Billy Sunday 10. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling 11. With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. Isadora Duncan 12. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar Wildel.