«Gratitude to mothers»

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

My mother is a walking miracle.

Leonardo DiCaprio

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

I don’t believe in love at first sight because my mother started loving me before seeing me.

Luffina Lourduraj

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

Denzel Washington

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

Martha Stewart

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

My mother said to me, ’If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Charlize Theron

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Michael Jordan

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

Eva Longoria

There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Taylor Swift

My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, ‘I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.’

Jason Segel

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

Diego Maradona

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

George Eliot

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

Abraham Lincoln

My mom is definitely my rock.

Alicia Keys

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great—but how to laugh through it.

Liza Minnelli (on mom Judy Garland)

My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection.

Michael Jackson

In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard, and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she’s here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

Jared Leto

My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She’s done everything for me to make my dreams come true.

Josh Hutcherson

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I’ve always looked up to.

Mike Krzyzewski

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Maya Angelou

My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

Barack Obama

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Gracie Allen

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Booker T. Washington

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker