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Quotes About Mother

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
~ Philip Sidney
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices
~ Egon Schiele
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
~ Plato
You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
~ Brigit of Kildare
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
~ Plato
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
~ Aeschylus
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
~ Jodi Picoult, House Rules
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
~ David Ortiz
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
~ Jessica Savitch
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
~ Zsuzsanna Budapest
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
~ J. K. Rowling
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
~ Sarah Paulson
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
~ Billy Graham
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
~ Mel Brooks
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
~ Rumi
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
~ Adam Sandler
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
~ Angie Dickinson
You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
My mother is a walking miracle.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
~ Brigham Young
Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!
~ Emo Philips