There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 55
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot British Author More George Eliot Quotes 10
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. Richard Branson British Businessman More Richard Branson Quotes 8
I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. Prince Rogers Nelson American Musician More Prince Rogers Nelson Quotes 8
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln American President More Abraham Lincoln Quotes 7
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 6
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 5
I once was a little girl who saw her father strike her mother. My younger sister and I lived with the anguish that all children feel when the family unit breaks down. Michaelle Jean More Michaelle Jean Quotes 5
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 4
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes 4
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. Erma Bombeck American Journalist More Erma Bombeck Quotes 4
A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac French Novelist More Honore de Balzac Quotes 3
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. Joan Rivers American Comedian More Joan Rivers Quotes 3
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation. Billy Joel American Pianist More Billy Joel Quotes 3
Fear is the mother of morality. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 3
No other teacher would do what she did for a lot of people. She was like my second mother. Marek Rupar More Marek Rupar Quotes 2
My mother taught me if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all. Phil Kearns More Phil Kearns Quotes 2
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. Wilma Rudolph American Athlete More Wilma Rudolph Quotes 2
My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit. Jerry Hall American Model More Jerry Hall Quotes 2
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. Louisa May Alcott American Novelist More Louisa May Alcott Quotes 2
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Poet More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes 2
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 2