Mother Quotes - 3

 "A boy's best friend is his mother."
   -- Joseph Stefano

 "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

 "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother."
  -- Lin Yutang

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

 "Motherhood is like Albania-- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there."
  -- Marni Jackson

"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
  -- Mary Antin

 "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."
  -- Maya Angelou

 "Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions."
  -- Nancy Stahl

 "Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all."
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1775-1817)

 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
  -- Oscar Wilde

 "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
 -- Pablo Picasso

 "A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you."
 -- Phyllis McGinley

 "Men are what their mothers made them."
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 "People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society."
 -- Stephen R. Covey