If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? – Milton Berle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. – John Lancaster Spalding
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. – Meryl Streep
What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. – Author Unknown
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother&#
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. – Lisa Alther
Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. – Beverly Jones
That best academy, a mother’s knee. – James Russell Lowell
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo
Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. – Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Mommies are just big little girls. – Author Unknown
A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. – Author Unknown
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. – Honoré de Balzac
A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love. – Author Unknown
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all. – Washington Irving
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don’t even have. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
