Mother Quotes - page 3

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother. (Clare Boothe Luce)
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. View quote
Anna Quindlen
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
Necessity, the mother of invention. View quote
George Farquhar
A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. View quote
Anzia Yezierska
Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels. View quote
Francisco Goya
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. View quote
Mark Twain
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. View quote
Gerald Ford
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! (Honoré de Balzac)
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. View quote
Maurice Gibb
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. View quote
Joachim du Bellay
My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully. View quote
Chris Brown
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. View quote
Halle Berry
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. View quote
Dick Gregory
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. View quote
Mick Jagger
You 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 Leigh)
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. View quote
Menachem Begin
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. View quote
Petrarch
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight... View quote
Henry Taylor