My 10 Favorite Quotes About Mothers

 

Here are my 10 favorite quotes about mothers.  I hope they bring a smile to your face! : )

 

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

 

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

 

3. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

— Milton Berle

 

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. “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

 

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

 

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