mother quotes

• My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Jack Nicholson) [mother/irony]
• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. (Jack London) [god/mother/class]
• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. (Sophia Loren) [mother/thoughts/mother/think]
• Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake. (Wystan Auden) [mistake/think/mother/result]
• My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere. (John Barrymore) [wife/willpower/mother/mother]
• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. (Henry Ward Beecher) [god/mother/forgiveness]
• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. (Henry Ward Beecher) [mother]
• Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. (Arnold Bennett) [mother]
• My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. (William Blake) [mother]
• The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. ( Napoleon I) [future/child/mother]
• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. (Edmund Burke) [fear/mother]
• 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) [mother/fortune/idleness]
• My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [right/mother]
• Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. (Claudette Colbert) [mother]
• When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. (Benjamin Disraeli) [silence/mother/truth]
• Silence is the mother of truth. (Benjamin Disraeli) [silence/mother/truth]
• An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. (Benjamin Disraeli) [books/bad/mother]
• There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [child/mother]
• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [enthusiasm/mother]
• Diligence is the mother of good luck. (Benjamin Franklin) [mother/luck]
• A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. (Sigmund Freud) [mother/life/feeling]
• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. (Robert Frost) [mother/fool]
• Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother. (Robert Frost) [mother]
• How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. (John Gay) [mother//pleasure/cheating]
• Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage! (John Gay) [think/mother]
• Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? (Emma Goldman) [/mother/more/more]
• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. (Germaine Greer) [mother/society/role/psychoanalysis]
• My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. (Helen Hayes) [mother/knowledge/being/nice]
• Night is the mother of counsels. (George Herbert) [night/mother]
• My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. (Mick Jagger) [mother]
• What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces? (James Joyce) [face/mother/face/kiss]

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