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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I remember my mother's prayers
and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart -
a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it,
and hospitable accommodation.

Mark Twain

If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o'mine.

Rudyard Kipling

The desolation and terror of, for the first time,
realizing that the mother can lose you,
or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness
and helplessness without her.

Francis Thompson

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom
of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge.
When I needed to get across, she steadied herself
long enough for me to run across safely.

Renita Weems

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden,
fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity;
when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us;
when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us,
and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels
to dissipate the clouds of darkness,
and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

A mother's arms are made of tenderness
and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

Sharon Doubiago

A man loves his sweetheart the most,
his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Irish Proverb

Midi by Yuko Ohigashi