Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

If my mother knew I did this for a living she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

For when a child is born, the mother also is born again.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Men are what their mothers made them.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

It is such broad-minded mothers who are needed today. Good mothers are more essential than good wives.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine, o mother o' mine.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have more often than not anonymously handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It like her yields in all seasons. Like a mother it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt, helpless naked piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud, and the pleasure and pain of all other living beings as his own - truly sees things in the right perspective and he is a true pandit.

I've been through it all baby, I'm mother courage.

I get angry with none. Will a mother get angry with her children? Will the ocean send back the waters to the several rivers?

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

In search of my mother's garden I found my own.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention in my opinion arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

'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.'

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance which would render us insupportable through life.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house and she said 'Get the hell off my property.'

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.