Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Necessity, the mother of invention.
William Wycherley
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagineî
Allan Bloom
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom
Heaven liveth at the feet of mothers
Muhammad
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Francesco Petrarch
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
Honor de Balzac
There is no substitute for mother's milk
Martin H. Fischer
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Russian Proverb