If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother…

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

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

(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

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the…

— Kim Alexis

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

— Michael Spence

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

I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story.

— Rob Burrow

Being a new mother is a blessing.

— Phaedra Parks

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself…

— Lights

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

— Horace Mann

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

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace…

— Pope Leo I

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay