“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.” KnowsWorldFeelsUseHandsFormMotherGrowthNatureShapesTasksStriveWideChecksBarriersRudeCentrePrudentWantonDeformityPowPrunesUncouth Author:John Armstrong
“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.” ChildrenLittlesStoriesAgeMotherLove IsWrittenMirrorsStriveSimplicityFolksDelightTalesFamiliarFairyInnateChildren Love Book:A story garden for little children Source: A story garden for little children
“in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.” GivingDifferentMotherStuffBuiltGive MeStriveGuiltyComradeship Author:Betty Rollin
“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.” EnoughMotherDaughterPerfectionStriveGood EnoughTypicalMother DaughterMother Daughter RelationshipStriving For PerfectionNever Good Enough Author:Dorothy Hamill
“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