Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Evan Bayh

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Alice Hoffman

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
Holly Hunter

Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. Salinger

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson

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.
Maggie Gallagher

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
Janice Dickinson

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.
Paul Lynde

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
Cathy Guisewite

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
Roger Bannister

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Phyllis Schlafly

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.
Geri Halliwell

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko