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Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”

Men Should Looks Two Mother Father Hours Died Merry Father Died My Father Died

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

Knows Said Humor Funny Mother Father Birth Easier Hundred Dollars Father Son

Author:Rita Rudner

“Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.”

Men Stills Book Would Be Mother Mad Valuable Comic Throwing Comic Book Throwing Away

Author:Rita Rudner

“Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.”

Heart Mother Humanity House Christ Born Lessons Thee Forlorn

Book:A Christmas Wreath

Source: A Christmas Wreath

“What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.”

Earth Lying Mother Born White Lord Air Cry Kings Bed Wings Christmas Heavenly Babe

Book:The Celestial Passion

Source: The Celestial Passion

“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”

God Light Mother Beauty Building Daughter Architecture Architect Principal Bad Ass Badass Architecture And Design Eldest Architecture Design Modern Architecture Eldest Child Eldest Daughter Light God

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?”

Art Light Mother Moon Snow Secure Silver Bows Dread Hunters Summit Cloudy Huntress Alpine

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset when I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous.”

Want Mind Mother Girl Boys Upset Apples Fabulous

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.”

Children Mother Night Evening Pale Mother Night

Book:Poems ... Third edition

Source: Poems ... Third edition

“Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.”

Has Beens Mother Roles Mom Motherhood Fulfilling Being A Mother Happy Mothers Day

Author:Annette Funicello

“My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.”

Knows Persons Mother Most Amazing Amazing Person

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.”

Mother Names Sea Land New York Fame Conquer Greek Flames Giants Sunset Gates Yearning Lightning Limbs Exile Wretched Torches Brazen Statue Of Liberty Colossus

Author:Emma Lazarus

“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.”

Mother Sleep Baby Weeping Babyhood

Book:Songs and entertainment of Miss E.L. Williams, the Welsh nightingale ...

Source: Songs and entertainment of Miss E.L. Williams, the Welsh nightingale ...

“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.”

Able Mother Creativity Stage Creator Producers Productive Magnitude Skip Gestation Loafing

Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.”

Stills Mother Father Thee Brethren Matrimony Father Mother Hector

Book:The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions

Source: The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions

“On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.”

Mother Chance Sells Telling The Truth Perfume Mothers Day Rip

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

Ifs Humans Kind Mother Desire Pleasure Virtue Pure Breaths Refuse Permanent Appetite Nursing Rendering Satiety

Author:Socrates

“When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.”

Mother Baseball Threat

Author:Bob Uecker

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.”

Giving Mother Born Months Give Me Saved Pounds Eighteen Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.”

Ifs Children Made Mother Sides Dark Concentration Camps Locks Closets Being Afraid Concentration Camp

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

Knows Years Children Wanted Young Mother Advice Grateful Polite Outspoken Suffragettes Young Mother

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.”

People Persons Made Important Wanted Mother Strong Inspiring Camps Very Strong Survived Influential Influential Person

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.”

Men Home Law Mother Found Wife One Day Bed Men And Women My Wife Broke In-laws Broke Up Mother In Law

Author:Lenny Bruce

“When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Littles Mother Girl Chinese My Children Soup Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Mama

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”

Firsts Kind Mother Father Heaven Christ Born Steps Seeing Despair Saved Holiness First Steps Born Again Father Mother

Book:The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

Source: The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

“Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.”

Mother Father Names Fellows Bills Call Me

Author:Eugene Field

“Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.”

Has Beens School Mother Difficulty Invention Facility

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.”

Mother Crime Burden Heavy Heavy Burdens

Book:Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan

Source: Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan

“So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.”

World Inspirational Humans Lasts Past Mother Passion Race Teach Saws Blind Human Race Blindness Brooding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.”

Sometimes Mother Company Boys Tree Wall Fine Hundred Wine Very Good Rings Vines Good Company

Author:Bryan Procter

“My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.”

Mother Teaching Ghost

Author:Amy Tan

“A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero”

Mother Wife Genius Hero Good Woman

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.”

Mother Given Land Pride Birth Motherland

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.”

Heart Children Mother House Example Humility Discipline Manners Good Man Hospitality Cleanliness Good Manners Shrines Acts Of Service

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.”

Spiritual Mother Desire Father Community Concern Concerned Welfare Related Purity Mundane Mother's Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.”

Problem Home School Young Mother Father Left Health Picks Nervous Whooping Cough

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.”

Mother Father Lost Five Ninety Cemetery Poland

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.”

Wanted Mother Parent Religious Childhood Logic Desperation Legion Satanism Lenient

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”

Children Hands Bigs Mother Order Strong Sun Gender Tenderness Womanhood Hand Holding

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.”

Ifs Wells Dream Bigs Might Mother Ethics Work Ethic Big Things Small Things Adamant

Author:Kevin Costner

“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Christianity Modern Motive Faculty Sentiments New Ideas Modern Education

Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”

Knows Moments Eye Lasts Mother Father Saws Arms Disease Stealing Conquer His Eyes Alzheimer Alzheimer's Never Fear

Author:Patti Davis

“I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.”

Men Years Enough Character Remember Spirit Mother Felt Compassion Minutes He Man Mets Essence Blessed Incredibles Privilege Charm Warmth Pope His Love Charisma John Paul Pope John Paul

Author:Cary Elwes

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