Step Mother Quotes:

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

- Augustine Birrell

source: "Obiter Dicta". Book by Augustine Birrell, 1884.

topic: Education, Mother, Steps, Step Mother

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

- Josh Billings

source: Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.236

topic: Mother, Genius, Poverty, Step Mother

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Essence, Steps, Step Mother, Pantheism

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

- John Quincy Adams

source: "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

topic: Country, Mother, Hypocrisy, Step Mother, Mother Country

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Mother, Father, Home, Step Mother

The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.

- Robert Darnton

topic: Mother, People, Toil, Step Mother, Mother Goose

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

- James Cromwell

topic: Mother, Father, Inspiration, Step Mother, Mother And Grandmother

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.326, [s.n.]

topic: Mother, Steps, Fortune, Step Mother

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

- George Herbert

topic: Mother, Names, Steps, Step Mother