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		Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up my children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve it.-Kate Samperi
My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. -Graycie Harmon		The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof. -Louisa Alcott
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library. -C. Lenox Remond		Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. -Rebecca Richards
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		There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child. -Elizabeth Grymeston
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. -Lotte Bailyn		I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it. -Lauren Bacall
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -Erma Bombeck		If evolution really works, how come mothers still have only two hands? -Ed Dussault
Integral to being emotionally healthy is to have a mother who has the ability to respect her childs differences and not perceive them as betrayals. A good mother can allow her child to be less than perfect. -Victoria Segunda		Because I feel, that in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you. -Edgar Allan Poe