My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

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

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Mom's always know how to make us happy, but they also know exactly how to make us cry.

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.

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

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day.

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

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