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

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.               —Florida Scott-Maxwell

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.  

                           —Robert Frost

Did you ever meet a mother who’s complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither. —Maureen Lipman

Don’t turn a small problem into a big problem — say yes to your mother.        —Sally Berger

I love old mothers — mothers with white hair / And kindly eyes, and lips grown softly sweet / With murmured blessings over sleeping babes.

                      —Charles S. Ross

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

A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

—Mary Kay Blakeley

The phrase “working mother” is redundant.              —Jane Sellman

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.        

                                  —Rajneesh

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

—Pearl S. Buck

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

—Spanish Proverb