Quotes

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
Bern Williams

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Leo J. Burke

The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. 
~John Wilmot

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. 
~Jane Sellman

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons.  And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. 
~Walter M. Schirra, Sr.