The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside.

 —Hannah Whitall Smith

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

—Charles Dickens

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

—Honoré de Balzac

God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.

—Jewish Proverb

Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity. No hand can lay it in the right direction but the hand of a mother.

—Mrs H.O. Ward

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

—Sally Berger

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

—Maureen Lipman

All mothers are physically handicapped. They have only two hands.

—Anonymous

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

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

—Florida Scott-Maxwell

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.

—Kate Douglas Wiggin