Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess. - Jessica Alba I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words. - Jodi Picoult Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance. - Nicole Krauss A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driv...

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Plato If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention. - Johnny Flora I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie Necessity is the mother of invention. She's also my mother, though Invention and I have different dads. - Jarod Kintz