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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Arthur Rock

Businessman · American · b. 1926

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Jack London

Novelist · American · 1876 – 1916

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

John Calvin

Theologian · French · 1509 – 1564

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet · English · 1772 – 1834

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Antonia Fraser

Author · British · b. 1932

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother Teresa

Leader · 1910 – 1997

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Environmentalist · American · 1893 – 1970

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Hesiod

Poet · Greek

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck

Journalist · American · 1927 – 1996

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Rudyard Kipling

Writer · English · 1865 – 1936

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Charles Eastman

Author · Sioux · 1858 – 1939

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

Poet · American · b. 1928

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

Gilbert Parker

Politician · British · 1862 – 1932

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Francis Maude

Politician · British · b. 1953

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Arnold Bennett

Novelist · English · 1867 – 1931

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Educator · American · 1799 – 1888

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Khalil Gibran

Poet · 1883 – 1931

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

Novelist · American · 1925 – 1998

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary Wesley

Novelist · British · 1912 – 2002

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

Jackie Kennedy

First Lady · 1929 – 1994

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Quentin Tarantino

Director · American · b. 1963

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

Dennis Banks

Educator · American · b. 1932

Silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Romano Prodi

Statesman · Italian · b. 1939

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Edith Wharton

Author · American · 1862 – 1937

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

Dick Cheney

Vice President · American · b. 1941

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Amy Tan

Novelist · American · b. 1952

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

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

Writer · English · 1865 – 1936

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Mary Harris Jones

Activist · American · 1837 – 1930

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

Kevyn Aucoin

Artist · American · 1962 – 2002

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Sally Quinn

Journalist · American · b. 1941

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Poet · Greek

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Writer · American · 1860 – 1935

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

First Lady · American · 1744 – 1818

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Sam Sheppard

Scientist · American · 1923 – 1970

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Margaret Cavendish

Writer · English

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

Cathy Guisewite

Cartoonist · American · b. 1950

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jules Renard

Dramatist · French · 1864 – 1910

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

Cy Coleman

Composer · American · 1929 – 2004

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

Sarah Palin

Politician · American · b. 1964

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

Seamus Heaney

Poet · Irish · b. 1939

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Antonia Fraser

Author · British · b. 1932

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

Jessica Savitch

Journalist · American · 1947 – 1983

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

Writer · English · 1908 – 1999

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