Mothers Quotes

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin McLane Spock

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko, columnist

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

George Carlin

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

Margaret Mead

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow - Minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix".

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Camille Paglia

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Bern Williams

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Anon.