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If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Rudyard Kipling

So loving to my mother
That he might not esteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.

William Shakespeare

There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Samuel Lover

Our Substance is our Father, God Almighty, and our Substance is our Mother, God, All-wisdom; and our Substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God All-goodness.

Julian of Norwich

Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.

Sheri S. Tepper The Gate to Women's Country (1988)

And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears.

William Shakespeare Henry V (1599)

The bravest battle that ever was fought;
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.

Joaquin Miller

/ You have by every kind of evidence, lost an excellent mother; and I hope you will not think me incapable of sharing your grief. I have a mother, now eight-two years of age, whom, therefore, I must soon lose, unless it please that she rather should mourn for me.

Samuel Johnson

A Kanga is Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals.

A. A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

In this unexpected scenario, the UFO occupants -- despite their obvious technological superiority -- are desperate for both human genetic material and the ability to feel human emotions -- particularly maternal emotions. Unlikely though it may seem, it is possible that the very survival of these extraterrestrials depends upon their success in absorbing chemical and psychological properties received from human abductees.

Budd Hopkins Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods (1987)

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.

Agatha Christie An Autobiography (1977)

It is never a good idea to underestimate a mob of angry moms.

Shannon Watts

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

Meister Eckhart Christianity (1995)

As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, "Oh no, that's women's work." Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

Gloria Steinem Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.

Zakir Hussain Quest for Truth (1999)

Perhaps my mommy should go back to school. Perhaps she should.

James Clavell The Children's Story (1982)

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Victim of a crime? Thank a single mother.

Ann Coulter

The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.

Laozi interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)

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