Famous Quotes

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

Paul Harris on Mom

More quotes about Mom

• "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

  George Washington on Mom

• "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

  Jessica Lange on Mom

• "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

  Mark Twain on Mom

• "Men are what their mothers made them."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom

• "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

  Pablo Picasso on Mom

More quotes by Paul Harris

• "One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."

• "Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."

• "In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor."

• "The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."

• "To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance."