Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

- Aeschylus

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

- Alan King

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

- Alan King

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.

- Alan Dershowitz

I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.

- Alan Dershowitz

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

- Alan Alda

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

- Alan Alda

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

- Al Sharpton

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

- Agatha Christie

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

- Aeschylus

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

- Abigail Adams

People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

- Adele

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

- Adam Sandler

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

- Adam Sandler

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

- Adam Sandler

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

- Action Bronson

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

- Action Bronson

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

- Abraham Lincoln