My 10 Favorite Quotes About Mothers


1. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” — Milton Berle

2. “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
— Mark Twain

3. “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
— Abraham Lincoln

4. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but
whose place no one else can take.”
— Cardinal Mermillod

5. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”
— Lin Yutang

6. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh

7. “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

8. “The phrase “working mother” is redundant.”
— Jane Sellman

9. “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
— Albert Einstein

10. “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

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