Birth Mother

Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or mother:

“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
—Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)