Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

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

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
Norman Rockwell

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne

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

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

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
Dan Aykroyd

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?
Charles Manson

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.
Charles Manson

I punched my mother out once.
Charles Manson

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin

My mother insisted that her children read.
Jimmy Buffett

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Goldman

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
David Bowie

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull