Mother Quotes Quotes

There is no line of defense, but a territory of defense and that territory is the whole of the motherland. No inch of the motherland may be abandoned without being soaked in the blood of her sons...

Mustafa Kemal Atatrk

The children walking over the bricks of their destroyed homes, their mother putting up a tent, their father in jail... in tears and confusion looking at the tanks coming down the street, the men holding metre-long machine guns... they stare... need I say more ...just imagine how it would feel to be a Palestinian....

Unknown

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Voltaire

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Honor de Balzac

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime

Benjamin Disraeli

Morality and its victim, the motherwhat a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Emma Goldman

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers

Edgar W. Howe

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore De Balzac

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Thomas Hardy

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel De Cervantes