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97 quotesNo fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Parents and Parenting
Miguel De Cervantes
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Patriotism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Enemies
Claudette Colbert
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Parents and Parenting
Quentin Crisp
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Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
Names
Princess of Wales Diana
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Silence is the mother of truth.
Silence
Benjamin Disraeli
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Silence
Benjamin Disraeli
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Mothers
George Eliot
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Men and Women
George Eliot
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men are what their mothers made them.
Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Children
English Proverb
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He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
Mothers
English Proverb
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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
Parents and Parenting
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Diligence
Benjamin Franklin
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
Vanity
Robert Frost
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
Marriage
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Night is the mother of counsels.
Night
George Herbert
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Fathers
Theodore M. Hesburgh
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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
Leisure
Thomas Hobbes
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Secrets
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
Mothers
William Dean Howells
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Mother-in-Laws
Hubert H. Humphrey
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A mother understands what a child does not say.
Mothers
Jewish Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun