Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
Pope John Paul II

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
John Calvin

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
T. S. Eliot

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan Rivers

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling