1,444 quotes
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.
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
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.
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