Greatest Daughter

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Unknown

My mother told me a million times not to exaggerate. - Unknown

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I am my mother after all. - Unknown

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. - Robert A. Heinlein

Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups. - Cathy Guisewite

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole Soyinka

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. - Dorothy C Fisher

Grandma, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life. - Unknown

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean your mother. - Unknown

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother. - Chelsea Clinton

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. - Dorothy

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother. - Ronnie Spector

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. - Beverly Jones

I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport. - Henny Youngman

Oh, when I was a kid, I was ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother. - Rodney Dangerfield

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me. - Lady Gaga

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealthy people miss one of life's greatest thrills: making the last car payment. - Unknown

My nickname is 'Mom', but my full name is 'Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom.' - Unknown

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. - Garth Brooks

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. - Les Dawson

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. - Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare... neither knew chocolate. - Sandra Boynton

Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. - Heinrich Heine

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

The greatest thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. - Madeleine L'Engle

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. - Abraham Lincoln

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. - Beth Ditto

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. - Jim Bishop

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either. - Michael Jordan

As a family we couldn't decide whether to have Grandma buried or cremated, so in the end we decided to let her live. - Gary Delaney

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life simply by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James

So long as the mother, ignorance, lives, it is not safe for science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things. - Johannes Kepler

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. - Phillip Moffitt

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. - John C Maxwell

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt