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97 quotesClever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
Ancestry
Russian Proverb
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.
Mothers
Jewish Saying
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Mothers
Olive Schreiner
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Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Ridicule
Sir Walter Scott
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
Sea
Anne Sexton
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Poetry and Poets
Dame Edith Sitwell
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Mothers
Spanish Proverb
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Parents and Parenting
Gloria Steinem
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Mothers
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.
Courage
Elizabeth Taylor
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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Family
Mark Twain
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mothers
Mark Twain
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Necessity
Mark Twain
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Mothers
Source Unknown
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An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.
Honesty
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Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.
Mother-in-Laws
Source Unknown
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Superstition
Voltaire
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Mothers
Alice Walker
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Mothers
Rebecca West
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Education is the mother of leadership.
Leaders and Leadership
Wendell L. Willkie
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My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering
Vocation
Mare Winningham
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I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
William Butler Yeats
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun