Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. Washington Irving
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! Rudyard Kipling
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Jewish Proverb
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb