Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm

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

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
Elizabeth Taylor

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
Elizabeth Taylor

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
Dick Gregory

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph

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

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Meryl Streep

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Meryl Streep

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

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

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Payne Stewart

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac