Night is the mother of thoughts.

My grandparents and my aunts tell me that I need to make a name for myself like my mother. Their thoughts really motivate me.

— Prateik Babbar

“As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget. You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented, diluted, or simply evaporate.…

— Suzi Banks Baum

“And in the night my own mother came to the window to meet me, strange, solitary; splendid with countless stars; my mother Night; mine,…

— Anna Kavan

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

— Anonymous

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

— Marsha Norman

“No trains. No traffic noise. At night, my mother's old bedroom was so dark I couldn't tell if I'd shut my eyes or not.”

— Susan Fletcher

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Night is the mother of counsels.

— George Herbert

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

— Aeschylus

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Being a new mother is a blessing.

— Phaedra Parks

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor