My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny YoungmanDiligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin FranklinThe mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself.
Sai BabaAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliI saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body but whatever it was that made her body live.
ConfuciusI am a woman, phenomenally phenomenal woman, that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
Maya AngelouWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenA good wife is of value only to her husband. A good mother is a national asset.
Sai BabaHatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
Mason CooleyA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does, and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaAll that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham LincolnI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. ForsterA mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor HugoMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace ThackerayGod could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard KiplingYou are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard BachIf I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine O mother o' mine!
Rudyard KiplingChildren are the anchors of a mother's life.
SophoclesMothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. KennedyBeing a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine HepburnI 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.
Eleanor RooseveltJust got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Henny YoungmanA man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund FreudIt is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma BombeckMother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich FrommListen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya AngelouAn ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard KiplingThe worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
Kin HubbardA mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de BalzacFrom this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins and I will never see you again if you do.
Jane AustenA mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de BalzacMy mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney DangerfieldIf a man has been his mother's undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund FreudMy mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark TwainFor when a child is born, the mother also is born again.
Gilbert ParkerA mother's life you see is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de BalzacMy mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance, but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya AngelouMy 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 WashingtonTo describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya AngelouLife began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George EliotCraving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric HofferHappy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus HareIf I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine, o mother o' mine.
Rudyard KiplingAnd so our mothers and grandmothers have more often than not anonymously handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice WalkerBeing a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Christina AguileraGod is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.
Sai BabaPoverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus AureliusMothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!
Sai BabaMom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.
Kurt CobainMy wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother and her mother will go anywhere.
John BarrymoreWhat a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward BeecherI was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma BombeckI was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
Rodney DangerfieldThe mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality in good manners and acts of service.
Sai BabaMy mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt, helpless naked piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William BlakeI remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham LincolnAs the mother so the progress of the nation. As the mother so the sweetness of culture!
Sai BabaThe art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de BalzacTo me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair almost entirely of our future as a people.
Alice WalkerThe Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.
Francis BaconOut of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler YeatsAnd I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.
Michelle ObamaIt wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours so we can pay the bills, or do the laundry, or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
Michelle ObamaIt is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion, it is a joy of every moment.
Honore de BalzacI used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
Jim CarreyGod pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward BeecherMy mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis DillerToday we find many children with bad character and bad behavior. The reason for this can be attributed to the bad thoughts of their mothers.
Sai BabaTo be intimate with a married man when my own father cheated on my mother is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina JolieThen I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me.
Maya AngelouI'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack ObamaThanks to my mother not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma BombeckThere's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma BombeckMy mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
Clint EastwoodA conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow WilsonMy mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity her compassion her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle ObamaOnly dedicated mothers can offer to the nation children who will strive for a great future for the country.
Sai BabaThe babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward BeecherNecessity... the mother of invention.
PlatoA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more of course.
Jim CarreyI hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.
Tiger WoodsI kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul IIMy mother died every night...it's safe to say don't quote me on that.
Kurt CobainFew misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset MaughamBetter a serpent than a stepmother!
EuripidesThe omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor HugoI remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy LamarrThere's people constantly asking you for something on set so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
Angelina JolieI didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossThe word "good" has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThankfully I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
Christina AguileraMy mother never breast fed me she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Rodney DangerfieldIf a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father the mother and the teacher.
Abdul KalamIf you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
T. S. EliotIt is love that shines brilliantly in every individual. But man not being able to comprehend the significance of love attributes physical relationship to it. The love of a mother towards her child is affection.
Sai BabaThe misery of a child is interesting to a mother the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric HofferIt wouldn Winston Churchill
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
Augustus HareMy mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael JacksonSilence is the mother of truth.
Benjamin DisraeliThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd WrightWho in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma BombeckMy mother bore me in the southern wild / And I am black but O! my soul is white.
William BlakeThis is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonYou know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well that's me.
Vivien LeighIn search of my mother's garden I found my own.
Alice WalkerWomen have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco ChanelMy mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
Drew BarrymoreTHE motherland is not a mere lump of earth. When we desire its progress we have to promote the progress of the people who dwell therein.
Sai BabaBeing a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour she can hurt you.
Erma BombeckWomen are the makers of the home the nation and the world. You are the mothers who shape the generation.
Sai BabaLimiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.
Sai BabaThere is nothing makes a man suspect much more than to know little and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more and not keep their suspicions in smother.
Francis BaconA father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mothe,r a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies (in one's own home).
Chanakya'My country right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. ChestertonBehind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert H. HumphreyA mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert FrostSweater n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose BierceIt is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus HareAll the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt RomneyNo mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain for economic advantage for ideology.
Ronald ReaganUntil 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid BergmanI'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me, I was raised in this society.
Tupac ShakurThe best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert EllisI was a Brownie Scout mother.
Joan RiversThe father is always a Republican toward his son and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert FrostMy mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born but when I did the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth TaylorI tell ya if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved -- to teach it probably ... Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there ... a good language gene which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.
George CarlinThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de BalzacAs I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill CosbyEven as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.
ChanakyaMy family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack ObamaWhen I get up and work out I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly who invests in them but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle ObamaMy mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
Tiger WoodsMy mother said to me 'If you are a soldier you will become a general. If you are a monk you will become the Pope.' Instead I was a painter and became Picasso.
Pablo PicassoAs a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
ChanakyaYou don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert FrostWhen I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney DangerfieldWhen your mother asks "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma BombeckYes Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice WalkerI should many a good day have blown my brains out but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law, and even then if I could have been certain to haunt her - but I won't dwell upon these trifling family matters
Lord ByronThere was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBiology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah WinfreyMy mother always wanted to give back.
Lady GagaWhen my mother died I was very young / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.
William BlakeThe caterpillar on the leaf / Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
William BlakeNow that I understand that I'm an addict I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
EminemOur most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers no sons no mother!
Honore de BalzacShe was a sister-friend to me, we called each other 'children sisters.' She was a great wife, obviously, and a wonderful mother, and a great woman, a great American. When I think of great Americans, she's one of the people I think of.
Maya AngelouThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves CousteauDo not have any misunderstanding amongst you. All of you should live in amity as the children of one mother.
Sai BabaMy mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.
Kim KardashianMy mother was an exuberant silly lady.
William ShatnerThe mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward BeecherYou see my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14 and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Paul McCartney