My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. – Carrie Latet, 2006

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&#

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. – Peter De Vries

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers. – Harry Emerson Fosdick