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At the cross, her station keeping,
Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
Where He hung, the dying Lord.
[Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa
Juxta crucem lacrymosa
Que pendebat Filius.]
Author: Anonymous
Source: (translated by Dr. William Josiah Irons)
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And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother
of all living.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. III, v. 20)
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The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel,
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Author: Bible
Source: Judges (ch. V, v. 7)
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Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also,
and he praiseth her.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 28)
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[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."
Author: Augustine Birrell
Source: Obiter Dicta
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A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Three Graves (st. 10)
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The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to
her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
[Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum
Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Three Graves (st. 10)
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There is none,
In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
A mother's heart.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Siege of Valencia (sc. Room in a Palace of Valencia)
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The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell
her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."
Author: George Hokewell (Hakewell)
Source: Apologie (bk. III, ch. V, sec. 9)
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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!
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: Mother O' Mine
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There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
Author: Samuel Lover
Source: My Mother Dear
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A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Legend of Brittany (pt. II, st. 43)
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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 (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),
Author: Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)
Source: The Bravest Battle--Mothers of Men
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Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]
Author: Old Saying
Source: applied by students to the university where they have graduated
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They say man rules the universe,
That subject shore and main
Kneel down and bless the empery
Of his majestic reign;
But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Author: William Stewart Ross (used pseudonym Saladin)
Source: a poem in "Woman: Her Glory, her Shame, and her God", vol. II, p. 420 (1894)
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That it should come to this,
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Those waters from me which I would have stopped;
But I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, vi)
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child
with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Getting Married
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And say to mothers what a holy charge
Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love
Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.
Author: Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Source: The Mother of Washington (l. 33)
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Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well/
My mother.
Author: Anne Taylor (Mrs. Gilbert)
Source: My Mother (st. 6)
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The bearing and the training of a child
Is woman's wisdom.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Princess (canto V, l. 456)
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Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Princess (canto VII, l. 308)
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Source: Vanity Fair (vol. II, ch. XII)
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They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
Author: William Ross Wallace
Source: What Rules the World, written about 1865-66
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No
man does. That is his.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: Importance of Being Earnest (act I)
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