A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ~Agatha Christie
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met. ~Marguerite Duras
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~Mark Twain
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. ~George Eliot
Mothers are all slightly insane. ~J.D. Salinger
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” ~Martha Gellhorn
But mothers lie. It’s in the job description. ~John Green
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark. ~John Irving
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ~Barbara Kingsolver
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ~Maxim Gorky
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior. ~Anne Lamott
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin
How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I’m kidding. I’m not. ~Ayelet Waldman
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert
