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Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

David Rockefeller

Businessman · American · b. 1915

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

Georg Brandes

Critic · Danish · 1842 – 1927

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.

George Weinberg

Psychologist · American

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Lynn Johnston

Cartoonist · American · b. 1947

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken

Writer · American · 1880 – 1956

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Clergyman · American · 1813 – 1887

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke

Businessman · English · 1552 – 1634

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Tanith Lee

Writer · British · b. 1947

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Composer · Hungarian · 1923 – 2006

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Beverly Cleary

Author · American · b. 1916

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

Kate Millett

Activist · American · b. 1934

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady · American · 1884 – 1962

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

Cathy Guisewite

Cartoonist · American · b. 1950

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent Gyorgyi

Scientist · Hungarian · 1893 – 1986

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce

Dramatist · American · 1903 – 1987

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Koichi Tanaka

Scientist · Japanese · b. 1959

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Jeremy Taylor

Clergyman · British · d. 1667

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

Muriel Spark

Novelist · English · 1918 – 2006

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Oriana Fallaci

Journalist · Italian · b. 1929

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

Lawyer · American · 1857 – 1938

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

Bill Forsyth

Director · Scottish · b. 1946

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

David Dinkins

Politician · American · b. 1927

THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

John Sergeant Wise

Author · American · 1846 – 1913

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Elizabeth Moon

Author · American · b. 1945

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Karl Kraus

Writer · Austrian · 1874 – 1936

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Abigail Van Buren

Journalist · American · b. 1918

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

Margaret Sanger

Activist · American · 1879 – 1966

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Judge · American · b. 1933

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

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

Nora Ephron

Author · American · b. 1941

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Amy Tan

Novelist · American · b. 1952

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

Jim DeMint

Politician · American · b. 1951

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Jerome K. Jerome

Author · English · 1859 – 1927

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

David Dinkins

Politician · American · b. 1927

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

Germaine Greer

Activist · Australian · b. 1939

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Coretta Scott King

Activist · American · 1927 – 2006

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Bob Schaffer

Politician · American · b. 1962

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Arianna Huffington

Journalist · American · b. 1950

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

Mary MacLane

Writer · Canadian

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Liz Smith

Journalist · American · b. 1923

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

Oriana Fallaci

Journalist · Italian · b. 1929

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

Christie Hefner

Businessman · American · b. 1952

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

Emma Bonino

Politician · Italian · b. 1948

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Nora Ephron

Author · American · b. 1941

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Sitting Bull

Statesman · Lakotan · d. 1890

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

Walter Winchell

Journalist · American · 1897 – 1972

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