Mother Quotes

"A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

"Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts / And eloquence."

"My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me."

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

"Silence is become his mother tongue."

"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order."

"The bloody Piedmontese that rolled / Mother with infant down the rocks."

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies"

"I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live."

"Mother Parks, take your rest."

"My mother is a fish."

"Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one"

"Listen to your Father who begot you, and do not despise your Mother when she is old."

"The mother knows best whether the child be like the father"

"Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover."

"If your mother says no jihad, then no jihad."

"I'm so ugly - My mother had morning sickness - After I was born"

"He promised his mother he would never do anything like that."

"My mother never breast-fed me. She told me she liked me as a friend."