Funny Quotes About Mothers

You' re not famous until my mother has heard of you.
        — Jay Leno

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
        — Abigail Van Buren

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
        — William Morris

The reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
        — Aristotle

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother
        — Henry Ward Beecher

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
        — James Fenton

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
        — Victoria Billings

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
        — Barbara Ehrenreich

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
        — H.E Bell

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
        — Philip Roth

My mother was the making of me.
        — Thomas Alva Edison

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