Mother Quotes

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Solomon)
Necessity... the mother of invention. View quote
Plato
Poverty is the mother of crime. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. View quote
Sophocles
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. View quote
Germaine Greer
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
My 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. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. (Robert Frost)
When 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. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either. View quote
Mike Tyson
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A mother who is really a mother is never free. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. View quote
Shirley Temple
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. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
My 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. View quote
George Washington
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. (Whitney Houston)
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. View quote
F. H. Bradley
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. View quote
Agatha Christie
A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child. View quote
Sophia Loren
My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield