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Mother Quotes by Mark Twain
- My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
- Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.
- My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
- It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
- If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish…
- By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
- Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman