The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

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

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

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.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.

In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old 'Peanuts' Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

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

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Men are what their mothers made them.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

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

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

I want to be a cool mom.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?