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. ~ Tenneva Jordan Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~ Mildred B. Vermont A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~ Peter De Vries The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~ Jane Sellman 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. ~ Rajneesh If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~ Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth) I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~ Pearl S. Buck If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~ Robert Brault A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~ Author Unknown Team Tigers Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~ Ambrose Bierce 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. ~ Golda Meir 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 The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~ Honoré de Balzac All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~ Oscar Wilde, He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. ~ William Shakespeare An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~ Spanish Proverb She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn’t take them along. ~ Margaret Culkin Banning 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, If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~ Milton Berle Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. ~ Helen Hunt Jackson 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 The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. ~ William Goldsmith Brown What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~ Graycie Harmon 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