Mother Quotes - page 2

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. (Clarence Darrow)
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. View quote
Robert Orben
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. View quote
Voltaire
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
If 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. View quote
Abdul Kalam
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. View quote
Albert Ellis
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. View quote
Germaine Greer
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. View quote
Groucho Marx
Bunter: My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. View quote
John Lennon
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Philosophy is the true mother of science. View quote
Cicero
My 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. View quote
Maya Angelou
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother. View quote
Claudette Colbert
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. View quote
Laurence Sterne
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to and encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. View quote
Edith Wharton
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. View quote
Rita Rudner
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. (Rudyard Kipling)
When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. View quote
Giordano Bruno
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. View quote
Karl Kraus
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. View quote
Erma Bombeck