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, but there is seldom any money in them.

— 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

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

— Mark Twain

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience…

— Mark Twain

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

— Mark Twain

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

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

— Victor Borge

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

“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