If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. -Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

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

All women become like their mothers.  That is their tragedy.  No man does.  That's his. -Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? -Thomas Wentworth Higginson

That best academy, a mother's knee. -James Russell Lowell

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. -William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly - but at a distance. - Winston Churchill, about his mother

Mothers are all slightly insane. -J. D. Salinger

Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,
And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate.
And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
-Phyllis McGinley

If you have some words of your own to say about your mother, check out Sullivan Entertainment's Mother's Day Contest.  All you have to do is write a short essay (400 words maximum) on why your mother deserves to be called "Mother of the Year" and you could potentially win an amazing prize pack of Sullivan products.  Also, make sure to look into the Sullivan Boutique's current Mother's Day specials.