“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.” MindChildrenStillsSchoolMotherPoorPayClassStudyWifeStreetsRegardPatientBusyHumbleThirtyAweInfantDeafWidowsTriflingHuts Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author
“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.” EyeLyingMotherWaitingNatureSecretPatientBosomsGracious Author:Margaret Junkin Preston
“My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.” FacesMotherFightingPatientGasMaskNurseGrapplingGas Masks Author:Maeve Binchy
“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.” KnowsFirstsWellsWholeMotherWaitingCryReadyBabyPatientKicksFedsScreamImpatient Author:Emmeline Pankhurst
“I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.” IfsLittlesWholeHandsMotherHumanityThreeFatherHeavenLordSawsAtheismBlessingHusbandLaborTablesPreparedPatientSakeDearSpreadPositive AtheismThis LifeMealsHeavenlyWearySermonsHeresyHeavenly FatherExhaustingAmenWearinessLittle Women Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.” ChildrenMotherPatientGenes Author:Merry Clayton