Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. — Sam Levenson
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. — Oscar Wilde
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? — Milton Berle
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. — Rudyard Kipling
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity. — Washington Irving
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. — George Washington
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. — Stevie Wonder
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. — Rajneesh
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. — Agatha Christie
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother — Lin Yutang
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me? — Nancy Thayer
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. — George Washington
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. — Phyllis Diller
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. — George Eliot
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital ‘M’; she’s something sacred to me. I love her dearly…yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to. — Sophia Loren
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. — Barbara Kingsolver
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. — Emily Dickinson
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. — Helen Hunt Jackson
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. — Meryl Streep
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. — Zora Neale Hurston
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. — Gail Tsukiyama
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. — Mike Wallace
“This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love’s true instinct, back to thee!” — Thomas Moore
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. — William Feather
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. — Charlotte Gray
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. — Antonio Villaraigosa
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) — Eddy Arnold
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. — Mark Twain
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. — Robert Frost
A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. — Grantly Dick-Read
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. — Buddy Hackett
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. — Gaspard Mermillod
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. — Oprah Winfrey
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. — William Makepeace Thackeray
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. — Mark Twain
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. — James Joyce
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness… The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half. — Gracie Allen
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. — Laurence Housman
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me. — Martina Hingis
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. — Billy Sunday
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. — Peter De Vries
Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day. — Jay Leno
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. — Calvin Trillin
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior. — Anne Lamott
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days… or a few months after childbirth. — Richard Codey
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. — James Earl Jones
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. — Ogden Nash
It’s the moms of this nation – single, married, widowed – who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters. You know it’s true, don’t you? You’re the ones who always have to do a little more. — Ann Romney
Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her. — Cathy Guisewite
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. — Abraham Lincoln
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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. — Sophia Loren
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. — Washington Irving
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Barbara Kingsolver
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. — Honore de Balzac
