“Praying mothers are America’s greatest assets.”—Theodore Roosevelt

“A mother’s lap is the best place from which to launch a life.”—Sarah Hupp

“She’s someone who will listen to your problems until you are bored with them.”—Ellen Goodman

“No one is poor who had a godly mother.”—Abraham Lincoln

“Together is the most beautiful word in the dictionary outside of the word mother.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson (when speaking about the benefits of unity)

“I learned more about God from my mother than from all the theologians in England.”—Charles Wesley

“I cannot tell how much I owe to the prayers of my good mother.”—Charles Spurgeon