Mother and Motherhood

Every success is the mother of countless others.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

FEW MISFORTUNES CAN BEFALL A BOY WHICH BRING WORSE CONSEQUENCES THAN TO HAVE A REALLY AFFECTIONATE MOTHER.

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get asleep.

Come mothers and fathers,

O mother what have I left out O mother what have I forgotten

If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine.

I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.