From Simran Khurana,
Your Guide to Quotations.
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I admit that "mother" is overly glorified by our society. Reams of paper and reels of films have expressed the love of a mother. But as Oprah Winfrey says: "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." To be a mother, one needs to feel the love of a mother. Read these quotes about "mother" and find out.

• Marion C. Garretty
  Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
  
  
• Oprah Winfrey
  Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
  
  
• Strickland Gillilan
  You may have tangible wealth untold;/Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold./Richer than I you can never be -/I had a mother who read to me.
  
  
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
  
  
• Jewish Proverb
  A mother understands what a child does not say.
  
  
• Spanish Proverb
  An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
  
  
• Leon Blum
  When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
  
  
• Pearl S. Buck
  Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same; and most mothers kiss and scold together.
  
  
• John Keble
  The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infant's eyes.
  
  
• Phyllis Mcginley
  The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
  
  
• Amos Bronson Alcott
  Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.