"My mother would do anything for her children. And that's how I am too."
- Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
"I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power."
- Chris Gardner
"As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother."
- Benazir Bhutto
"I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do."
- Maya Angelou
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others."
- Zig Ziglar
"My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled."
- Robin Williams
"I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'"
- Naomi Campbell
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
- Rudyard Kipling
"That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one."
- Oprah Winfrey
"My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters."
- Michelle Obama
"My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'"
- Stephen Covey
"The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry."
- Billy Graham
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
- George Eliot
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