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Quotes About Mother

Have mercy on me, O Lady: for thou art called the Mother of Mercy. And according to thy mercy: cleanse me from all my iniquities. Pour forth thy grace upon me: and withdraw not from me thine accustomed clemency. For I will confess my sins to thee: and I will accuse myself of all my crimes before thee. Reconcile me to the Fruit of thy womb: and make peace for me with Him who has created me.
~ St Bonaventure
So the Church imitates the Lords mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things.
~ St. Thérèse de Lisieux
Telling a mother who has a child and work committments to chill out is like telling a nuclear engineer not to worry about the leak in the reactor he has been sent in to fix.
~ Stacie Cockrell
That sea - that mother of a million summers, Who bore, with melody, a million springs, Shall sing for my enchantment...
~ Stella Benson
I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.
~ Stella McCartney
Protest hovered on her tongue. No, don't divest yourself of Daddy's things…don't forget the life you had with him…don't forget who you are. Instead she simply stared at an unfamiliar, sophisticated version of her mother and wondered how much more of her she would lose before this situation ended.
~ Stephanie Bond
My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
~ Nikola Tesla
Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
~ Margaret Fuller
Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.
~ Karen Abbott
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Time is the mother of truth.
~ Khalid Masood
I resign, says Velvel. He takes off his glasses, slips them into his pocket, and stands up. He forgot an appointment. He's late for work. His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.
~ Michael Chabon
His mother is calling him on the ultrasonic frequency reserved by the government for Jewish mothers in the event of lunch.
~ Michael Chabon
own trouble he was paying for. I handled his mother's foreclosure defense and got her
~ Michael Connelly
The mother was listed as Rosemary Foxworth, DOB 6/21/54, Philadelphia
~ Michael Connelly
Who knows what succession of girls and boys sneak in through the sliding glass doors at night, after the mother has sunk to the bottom of her own private lake, with the help of Absolut and Klonopin?
~ Michael Cunningham
Corum stood over the corpse of his mother, the gentle Princess Colatalarna. His first blow split the forehead of the leading horse and it fell, dragging the others down with it.
~ Michael Moorcock
When I think of Tomodachi, I think of your mother. Your mother, she too lose her baby. She lose you. That very sad thing for her. Maybe she come looking, and she not find you. You not there when she come. She think you dead for ever. But she see you in her mind. Now as I speak maybe she see you in her mind. You always there. I know. I have son too. I have Michiya. He always in my head. Like Kimi. They dead for sure, but they in my head. They in my head forever.
~ Michael Morpurgo
When Handel had his breakdown, he was, according to my opera-loving mother, "the ideal man" in that state, honourable, loving the world he could no longer be a part of, even if the world was a place of continual war.
~ Michael Ondaatje
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
~ Olympia Dukakis
Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he loved America. You know, he loved his fellow man. He had a great humanitarian philanthropic sense.
~ Linda Thompson
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.
~ Steve Miller