Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
~ Lisa Alther

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

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
~ Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
~ Dorothy on The Golden Girls

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~ Washington Irving

Few women realize what great service they are doing for mankind and for the kingdom of christ when tye provide a shelter for the family and good mothering—the foundation on which all else is built. A mother builds something for more magnificent than any cathedral—the dwelling place for an immortal soul.
~ Dorothy Patterson, in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~ Spanish Proverb

Reasoning with a two-year-old is about as productive as changing seats on the Titanic.
~ Robert Scotellaro

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~ Harmon Killebrew

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
~ Sigmund Freud

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~ Bill Cosby Read more