Mother Quotes - page 4

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight... (Henry Taylor)

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Edmund Burke

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Robert Jordan

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year, Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day For Im to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Lenny Kravitz

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

Stephen Fry on being gay My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.'

Stephen Fry

Invention is the mother of all necessities.

Marshall McLuhan

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. (Gene Simmons)

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.

Nora Ephron

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Gloria Steinem

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Arianna Huffington

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife.

Amy Tan

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

George H. W. Bush

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Joan Rivers

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

George V of the United Kingdom

3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Larry Niven

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Will Durant

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. (Rita Rudner)

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Albert Camus

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

When 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 Blake

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

H. G. Wells

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