Mother Quotes - Page 19

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young ones of a tortoise look up to their mother. As a fountain rises upwards, even so must one's spirit rise to God. One should entertain no idea whatsoever, except that of God.

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

If you can't take a small loss, sooner or later you will take the mother of all losses.

Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.