"I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure"