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“It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.”

People Mother Interesting Nice Sweet Casts Vulnerability Nice People

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.”

War Soul Whole Eye Mother Sound Dark Forget Streets Sweet Broken Wet Widows Butchery Wet Eyes

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.”

Men Mother Sea Sweet Lovers Kissing

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.”

“The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!”

Ifs Care Mother Felt Loss Sweet Thousand Affection Active Obedience Tenderness Blank Dreary Rallying Rallying Point

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”

Children Mother Father Parent Natural Study Sweet Cherish Housekeeping

Book:Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

Source: Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.”

Heart Mother Voice Answers Feet Sweet Arms Return Sight Dancing Spread Infant

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean.”

“How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.”

Knows Stills Mother Desire Strong Work Sweet Daughter Gentle Friendly Fierce Adulthood Adventurous Nurturing Working Women

Author:Anne Roiphe