"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes"

"Diligence is the mother of good luck"

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions"

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