This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.

That's your mom, right?" Pathik smiled. "She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.

Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.

You never appreciate all of the things your mother did for you until you find yourself doing the same things for your kids

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a---Mother!I was going to say arm.

There s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother s story because hers is where yours begins

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason And those of us who are mothers know it s the most exquisite love of all

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily stuffed.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.