A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.

All mothers are working mothers.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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.

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

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.