"The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician." ~ Sidney J. Harris
"Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children."~ Maxim Gorky
"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.~ W.R. Wallace
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.~ Mark Twain
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI
"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." ~ Sophocles
"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." ~ Buddy Hackett
To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. ~ Arlene Benedict
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert
A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb
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