5,322 Quotes About Mother

Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may not think about it consciously, but they are our lifelines to a part of ourselves that we are at the brink of losing altogether.

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

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?

If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.

Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.