There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.             —Robert Brault

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.        —Washington Irving

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

                         —George Herbert

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

                      —Spanish Proverb

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

                              —Mark Twain

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

                         —Jewish Proverb

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 heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.    —Honoré de Balzac

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?       —Milton Berle

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

—Meryl Streep

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.

—author unknown