"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect."
- Roseanne Barr

"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one."
- Jill Churchill

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
- Theodore Hesburgh

"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

“All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.”
- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Mothers can look through a child's eyes and see tomorrow."
- Reed Markham

"Great mothers build bridges instead of walls."
- Reed Markham

"The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Humorous
"I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to."
- Pamela Anderson

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

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."
- Phyllis Diller

"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it."
- Buddy Hackett

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
- Mark Twain