Quotes
Quotes about Mother
I know--yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for heaven.
Daughter am I in my mother's house;
But mistress in my own.
The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."
Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!"
To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.
The mother of all living.
I arose a mother in Israel.
If you reject family - which a mother holds together - as well as the ties of Church and State, is there anything left for you?
People, even stepmothers, are not to be condemned for lack of art or aitches
The river that the lover discovers is gilded and mother-of-pearled
A boy needs his mother, needs her warmth and love and protection
I had said good-bye to my warm, loving mother and elected for cold, uncertainty, sin, the horror of the normal and respectable, their claws, latent but acute
There was never much point in moral activism in Great Britain, it was always a matter of waiting for the Americans to move. The colonies still worked for the old mother bitch
We are loyal only to our mothers. We strive for the new but cannot attain it. We travel a circle. We want to get back
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy--the mother.
A sweater is a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
