An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
 âSpanish proverb
Life began with waking up and loving my motherâs face.
âGeorge Eliot
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
âW. Somerset Maugham
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.                                                                 âMark Twain
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.                                   âDorothy Canfield Fisher
Youâre not famous until my mother has heard of you.
 âJay Leno
Whenever Iâm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.                            âAmy Tan
If you bungle raising your children, I donât think whatever else you do well matters very much.     Â
âJacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.                     Â
 âKate Douglas Wiggin
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.  Â
 âCharlotte Grey
All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.                                          âRobertson Davies
The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.                                               âKahlil Gibran
Children arenât happy with nothing to ignore, / And thatâs what parents were created for.                                         âOgden Nash
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.                                                                 âGloria Steinem
You may have tangible wealth untold; / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be â / I had a mother who read to me.                                         âStrickland Gillian
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.                                                          Â
âMaya Angelou
My mother loved children. She would have given anything if I had been one.                                                       âGroucho Marx
Before becoming a mother, I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: Love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.
âKate Samperi