I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible and I cried for three days.

When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had Mother Church ranks at the very top a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

There are people and nations Mother that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.