It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and…

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

— Mark Twain

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it…

— Thomas Paine

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

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.”

— Hosea Ballou

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

— Phyllis Diller

That best academy, a mother's knee.

— James Russell Lowell

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

“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

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

— Mark Twain

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