Happy Mothers Day!

34 nice quotes about mothers, cribbed from quotegarden.com and festivals.iloveindia.com:

1. Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck
2. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author Unknown
3. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac
4. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb
5. If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton Berle
6. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep
7. My mom is literally a part of me. You can’t say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet
8. Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ~Oprah Winfrey
9. A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
10. The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
11. "A man loves his sweetheart the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest." ~ Irish Proverb
12. "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."~ Jewish Proverb
13. "A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to making leaning unnecessary." ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ~ Lin Yutang
15. 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
16. "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."~ George Washington (1732-1799)
17. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."~ Mark Twain
18. "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."~ Sophia Loren, from Women and Beauty
19. "Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."~ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
20. "A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done."~ Unknown
21. "The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother--which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician." ~ Sidney J. Harris
22. "Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children."~ Maxim Gorky
23. "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." ~ Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)
24. "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
25. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.~ W.R. Wallace
26. "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
27. "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
28. My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.~ Mark Twain
29. Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ~ Pope Paul VI
30. "Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life." ~ Sophocles
31. "My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." ~ Buddy Hackett
32. To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. ~ Arlene Benedict
33. A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert
34. A mother understands what a child does not say. ~ Jewish proverb

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY NANAY!