“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.” MotherGivenLandPrideBirthMotherland Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.” ChildrenArtMotherArtistAttitudePrideCriticismReactionsSensitivityPossessive Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle
“A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.” ChildrenJobsJoyMotherTeacherJudgingSourcePrideSoothingConfidantWrong Job Author:Joseph Goebbels
“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?” FirstsMaySaidShowsSpiritMotherReligionSpiritualityRoomsClassLaughingFlowerPrideSittingBlessedRoseBunchLaughedGardeningVirginsBugsLampsAltarsComradeLilacIrreverentCatechismPosies Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“Mothers tend to encourage their sons to run away and romp.... Mothers of little boys often complain that "There's no controlling him." "He's all over the place...." The complaints are tinged with more than a little pride at the boy's marvelous independence and masculine bravado. It's almost as though the mother enjoyed being overwhelmed by her spectacular conquering hero.” LittlesRunningMotherBoysSonPrideHeroIndependenceComplainingConquerEnjoyedRunning AwayMarvelousComplaintsOverwhelmedMasculineSpectacularLittle BoysBravadoBeing Overwhelmed Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.” WorldChildrenMotherFatherNationsMemoriesYouthSonPrideCitizensDaughterSouthDeedsHonourSouth Africa Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations