Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~ George Cooper

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.
~ Mildred B. Vermont

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~ William Goldsmith Brown

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~ Peter De Vries

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
~ Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

All mothers are working mothers.
~ Author Unknown

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
~ Rajneesh

Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
~ John Erskine