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

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
Vera Wang

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
Jay Leno

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
Jay Leno

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle

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

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
Gracie Allen

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow

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

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Richard Branson