My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

It's the moms of this nation - single married widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers we're the wives we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters we're the little sisters we're the daughters. You know it's true don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out about a century ago that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

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

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning not the result of ignorance or accident its children will become the foundation of a new race.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must know our mothers names.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children you're thinking about working.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Sweater n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Yes Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet there would be no more wars.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub Son stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says Toughen up this is reality we are living in.