Mother Quotes

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

Eva Gabor

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.

Isadora Duncan

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties"

John Muir

Since the land is the parent, let the citizens take care of her more carefully than children do their mother.

Plato

Gueorgui love to the forest, the forest as old as a legend, gentle as a mother and stern as a father.

Nicolai Levkov

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year

Robert Brault

Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world

Charles Mackay

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

Earl Wilson

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

Bourke Coekran

Mother, mother ocean, after all these years I've found My occupational hazard being my occupations just not around. I feel like I've drowned, Gonna head uptown.

James William "Jimmy" Buffett

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trickthat makes us grow.

Lois McMaster Bujold