Quotes
Quotes about Mother
Maka le wakanâthe land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Gin was mother's milk to her.
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. Mother Teresa -W. H. Auden.
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. -Mother Teresa.
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -Mother Teresa.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa.
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.
The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And all that thou hast done for me!
A mother understands what a child does not say.
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbulâenormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
