Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word…

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character

— Hosea Ballou

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

“The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced…

— Hugues Felicite Robert De Lamennais

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey…

— Giovanni Ruffini

To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee I learnt love-lore that is not…

— Christina Rossetti

“Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface…

— Ursula Hegi

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

— Phyllis Diller

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

— Mark Twain

That best academy, a mother's knee.

— James Russell Lowell

“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of…

— George Eliot

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

— Victor Borge

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

— Mark Twain

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez