My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Denzel Washington

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
Carol Burnett

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Carol Burnett

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn vos Savant

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

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

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk

Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Paula Poundstone