Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. –J. Reuben Clark (submitted by Ruth Friese, New Glarus WI)

Here is a beautiful tribute by a son to his mother: "I don’t remember much about her views of voting, nor her social prestige; and what her ideas on child training, diet, and eugenics were, I cannot recall. The main thing that sifts back to me now through the thick undergrowth of years is that she loved me. She liked to lie on the grass with me and tell stories, or to run and hide with us children. She was always hugging me…. And I liked it. She had a sunny face. To me it was like God, and all the beatitudes saints tell of Him. And sing! Of all the sensations pleasurable to my life, nothing can compare with the rapture of crawling up into her lap and going to sleep while she swung to and fro in her rocking chair and sang. Thinking of this, I wonder if the woman of today, with all her tremendous notions and plans, realizes what an almighty factor she is in the shaping of her child for weal or woe? I wonder if she realizes how much sheer love and attention count for in a child’s life.” –Ezra Taft Benson (submitted by Jackie Hastings, Montezuma NM)

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor." --Alfred Lord Tennyson (submitted by Tara Price, Riverton WY)