"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln on Mothersday"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
Abraham Lincoln on Mothersday"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
Theodore Hesburgh on Mothersday"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
William Makepeace Thackeray on Mothersday"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
Victor Hugo on Mothersday"Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that."
"My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family."
"Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage."
"God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done."
"Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it."