Famous Quotes

"Men are what their mothers made them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 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

• "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

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

  Aristotle on Mom

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "All diseases run into one, old age."

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

• "Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."

• "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

• "Every artist was first an amateur."