India is my mother.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the…

— Will Durant

Shakti' moves on various levels - love in Canada, feudalism in India and, above all, a mother's fierce fight against her father-in-law to wrest…

— Boney Kapoor

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I…

— Arundhati Roy

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it…

— Annie Besant

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

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

— Horace Mann

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

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

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