Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
Annie Leibovitz

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

My mother insisted that her children read.
Jimmy Buffett

That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
Dane Cook

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam Sandler

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Elvis Presley

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
Germaine Greer