Mother Quotes

"Invention is the mother of necessity"

"I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?"

"Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra"

"Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking"

"She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother"

"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too"

"Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans"

"The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world"

"Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother"

"Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves"

"The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother"

"Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children"

"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps"

"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre"

"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love"

"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers"