“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.” IfsShouldTryingChildrenPersonsWisdomPainMotherDesireSinCasesDiseaseIncreaseHungerLustIslamicBreastsGluttonyNafs Author:Busiri
“When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.” WayMayChildrenLittlesShowsFacesMotherMonstersTemptationBreastsTemptedShrinksBosoms Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress
“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsChildrenMotherDyingBabyCurrentsAccessVulnerableBreastsBellyLimbsHollowHornsFamineSwollenMatchsticksHorn Of Africa Author:Josette Sheeran
“Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared.” MotherBeatsStonesSilentBelovedBreastsMaryDiscipleMary Magdalene Author:Anna Akhmatova
“Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!” HeartMotherWifePureHusbandFoundationBreastsMaidsPure LoveArdorPlacidDomesticity Author:Euripides
“One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.” WayChildrenHelpingMotherCivilizationIncreaseWesternWaveCurrentsOne WayBreastsCombatSolidarityWestern Civilization Author:Grace Kelly
“Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing.” PlayMotherMouthsBreastsMilkTrumpets Author:Wynton Marsalis
“On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?” IfsMenShouldChildrenHandsSeemsMotherFatherAtheismDesignDefeatPositive AtheismCriminalsInsaneIdiotBreastsThank GodIdiotic Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.” HandsMotherFatherStruggleBandStriveBoundsBreastsWeary Book:Complete writings: with variant readings Source: Complete writings: with variant readings