“Mother, There is No Other. Like Mother So treat Her right, treat Her right.”

“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“No woman in the world, certainly none in America, has had to battle for her virtue, for her self-respect, for her right to her own children, as has the black mother.”

Richard R. Wright Jr. (1878–1967)

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

“You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

“If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

“How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia’s mother and father, because of her mother’s and father’s mothers and fathers.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

“Outside Palestine the ancient East treated women as slaves without rights… in the fourth commandment, Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother, the mother is set upon the same level as the father in the eyes of the children. Such reverence for women was not revealed by oriental 'flesh and blood.”

Michael von Faulhaber (1869–1952) German Roman Catholic Cardinal

“What I am seeing right now is a man who is so dominated by his mother that he is willing to throw away his marriage in order to protect her from the trauma of growing up and acting like an adult.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock