Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As quoted in Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town (2004) by Dozier Cade, p. 77
Attributed
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As quoted in Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town (2004) by Dozier Cade, p. 77
Attributed
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
Quote of Franz Marc, in exhibition-text 'Die Blaue Reiter', Gemeentemuseum the Hague, Netherlands 2010
c. 1914/15, on the death of his close friend August Macke, who fell in the first months of World War 1.
1915 - 1916
“The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 115]
“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1938) American journalist and playwright
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
Jill Churchill (1943) American writer of historical, mystery, and romantic novels under several names
“The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
"Thoughts on Lotteries" (1826)
1820s
“Obedience mother is of good success,
Sure pledge of safety.”
Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 224–225 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.”
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) German author