More quotations tagged with “mother”
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
—James Thurber
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
—Paula Poundstone
We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings.
—Elizabeth Dodson Gray
What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?
—Maya Angelou