“My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.” WarKidsMotherFatherLiteratureGamesTaughtTenLaysAncientBridgesRomeElevenEnglish LiteraturePedestriansAncient RomeWar Games Author:Bernie Taupin
“For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!” IfsWarCountryMotherWorstSonKimYour SonJewish Mother Author:Seth Rogen
“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.” WarSoulWholeEyeMotherSoundDarkForgetStreetsSweetBrokenWetWidowsButcheryWet Eyes Author:Seneca the Younger
“Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.” KnowsWarMotherNextFailingGenerationsRocksMotherhoodGods WillKingdomsSatanEmpiresRighteousNext GenerationKingdom Of GodCradleLoving Mother Author:Sheri L. Dew
“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.” PeopleBelieveHeartDoeWarDreamMotherEvilFatherDarkBehindsFireInspireOne DaySeedsDefeatedMisunderstoodBloomingMisplaced Book:Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel
“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.” IfsLittlesWarLightPainRememberMotherGirlProcessHoursPerfectCitiesSilenceDarknessSittingOilPregnantLampsFarmingSpinningBarnsMidwifeYarnBirthingMaresCity Girl Author:Diet Eman
“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.” IfsWantGivingYearsChildrenStillsTwoWarUsedMotherCertainThreeFatherNiceGrewGrew UpCapableDiedRaisedTwo YearsNice ThingsPeanutsPensionFather DiedTwo Year OldsMy Father DiedThriftyParsimony Author:Giulio Andreotti
“I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsWarRealCountryReasonMotherPresidentTermFiveBearsConceptsBasesThreatStrikesOur CountryRejectsGrandchildrenPresident BushCubsLionessReal Intelligence Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.” KnowsWorldGivingImportantWarDoneJobsFormMotherForcePayGenerationsSacrificeBirthPicksLaborCleanSorryCooksNurseDiapersImportant JobsZipsCheap LaborLabor Force Author:Joanna Russ
“I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.” ChildrenHas BeensWarCountryMotherNaturalSeeingBenefitsResourcesOur ChildrenTiredIraqHearingDestroyedOur CountryDirtyBossAssetsScreamLoved OnesTroopsNatural ResourcesBuryingDirty Work Author:Cindy Sheehan
“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.” WarMotherArtistFatherMetsChineseParisBombsAxesSmugglingProvenceTrapezeCadetsTrapeze Artists Author:Colin Meloy
“Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.” WarMotherCommunityPraying Author:Leymah Gbowee
“You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.” WorldFirstsWarMotherFightingFatherMalesPatternsTendenciesWar Of The WorldsFirst World WarBaldness Author:Jeremy Hardy
“Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.” FirstsHas BeensWarFeelingsMotherPassionTragedyMurderVictimJealousyHarbour Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch
“I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.” PeopleThinkingBelieveChildrenWarRealMotherFallStuffMillionsInnocentBombs Author:Shakira
“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.” MenHumansChildrenWarGovernmentWantedMotherHeavenLibertyHistoryWillingHolyShotsSlaveryUnionsDemocratSoldierEvery ManNakedBlockCivil WarLabourYellowFlagsSolitaryCorpsesAltarsFeverAmerican Civil WarLashesAuctionsYellow FeverBloodhounds Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“Mother Teresa was brilliant. She said, “I will never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” She knew. She understood the secret. Look what she manifested in the world.” IfsWorldLooksSaidWarMotherSecretUnderstoodBrilliantInvitesAnti WarTeresa Author:Jack Canfield
“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.” WorldWayKindWarGovernmentTogetherMotherLossHappenedConflictStatementsCivil WarAntiwarAcceptableMothers DayJuliaCarnageDuring The Civil War Author:Gloria Steinem
“When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.” ChildrenWarMotherAliveMilitaryHealthyExtraordinaryShirtsCivil WarDictatorshipT ShirtExtraordinary ThingsDefyingWhereabouts Author:Liya Kebede
“For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.” KnowsWarEyeFacesMotherFeltGrievingAfghanistanAftershock Author:Ross Kemp
“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.” ArtWarMotherTermImaginationProgressCryExpressionRevolutionExperimentsInventionNurseVoyagesEnnui Book:Poets of America Source: Poets of America
“I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.” WellsWarMotherUnderstoodCoffeeCupsVeteranCoffee CupGuerrillas Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.” PeopleMenMayMadeWarCountryHandsGovernmentEarthFacesSpiritMotherFatherWaitingWhiteRaceSkyLandBrotherPrayingMen And WomenRainEarsTreatsSpotsChiefsIndianBloodyWoundedWhite ManGreat Spirit Author:Chief Joseph
“As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.” WayTryingKindWarCountryProblemGovernmentKidsMotherDiesInterestInterestingViolenceDeserveRaisesSolveCodeExecutionHonorableDeath Penalty Author:Susan Sarandon
“For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.” MenGivingChildrenWarMotherCoupleRaisesSoldierParksWillingnessHonoredStatuesBe A ManChild Soldier Author:Carol Gilligan
“Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.” MenYearsChildrenWarBodyMotherHouseLanguageWifeSceneHusbandSmartStrikesVideoDespiteBombsMinistryBurnedWeepingDefenceDescribingPentagonMother ChildCratersWife Mother Author:Marie Colvin
“I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.” ThinkingShouldWarMatterLastsBeautifulLife IsMotherHateLostEnjoySpaceLove IsSonHusbandIncludingBelovedMy HusbandCherishPessimismBeautiful LifeLast DayThose We LoveLife Is BeautifulLost EverythingBeautiful LoveBeautiful NatureHate LifeBeloved Son Author:Alice Herz-Sommer
“We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.” PeopleIfsWayShouldBelieveWarUseMotherLostSpeakNationsPresidentProtectSpeechRaisedHonestlyUsaFree SpeechShut UpPledgeAllegianceBattlefieldsSpeaks Out Author:Phil Donahue
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.” WorldWarHandsRunningAgeMotherFightingCoursesPayPovertyEuropeRageShouldersWar Of The WorldsBeastWorld War IBloodyPay The PriceSlough Author:Kate Richards O'Hare
“More and more details coming out now about spoiled rich kid Osama bin Laden. Time reports this week he was one of 52 kids. Mother must be exhausted. This guy inherited $80 million at age 13 and has since expanded it to $300 million through construction, smart investments and gas and oil investments. This way, he can use the money in his war against capitalism.” WayWarUseKidsAgeMotherGuyMillionsRichWeekSmartCapitalismInvestmentDetailsOilReportsGasComing OutConstructionExhaustedThis GuyBin LadenSpoiledOsama Bin LadenRich Kids Author:Jay Leno