Quotes about Mother From Famous People

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What do famous people say about mothers?

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

-- Abraham Lincoln

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

-- George Washington

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

-- Andrew Jackson

A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

-- George Herbert

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

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

—Jewish proverb

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

-- Balzac

In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

-- Booker T. Washington

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

-- Charles Chaplin

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