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

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

Elle Macpherson

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

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

Michael Jackson

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Sophia Loren

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

Diego Maradona

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Rudyard Kipling