Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Mother o' Mine http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p3/motheromine.html (1891). <br class="br">Other works
The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Mother o' Mine http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p3/motheromine.html (1891). <br class="br">Other works
Gideon Levy (1953) Israeli journalist
In a Democracy, Palestinian Lawmaker Khalida Jarrar Would Be Free (June 21, 2018)
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) Persian philosopher
Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907) Georgian poet and politician; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church
Source: Anthology of Georgian Poetry (1948), Lines to a Georgian Mother, p. 59
“Whatever is praised everywhere else yields to Spain alone. It is she that spawns the toughest soldiers, the most experienced generals, the most eloquent orators, the most famous poets; she is the mother of judges—and the mother of Emperors. She gave the Empire the great Trajan, and then Hadrian; to her the Empire is indebted for you [Theodosius I].”
Dum Hispaniae uni quidquid ubique laudatur adsurgat. Haec durissimos milites, haec experientissimos duces, haec facundissimos oratores, haec clarissimos uates parit, haec iudicum mater haec principum est. Haec Traianum illum, haec deinceps Hadrianum misit imperio; huic te debet imperium.
"Panegyric of Theodosius" (389), as recorded in the Panegyrici Latini. Translation from C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini (1994), p. 452 https://books.google.com/books?id=0WlC_UtU8M4C&pg=PA452&dq=%22It+is+she+that+spawns+the+toughest+soldiers%22&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20she%20that%20spawns%20the%20toughest%20soldiers%22&f=false, original Latin at p. 649 https://books.google.com/books?id=0WlC_UtU8M4C&pg=PA649&dq=%22It+is+she+that+spawns+the+toughest+soldiers%22&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22Haec%20durissimos%20milites%22&f=false.
Frederick Douglass book My Bondage and My Freedom
Source: 1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Chapter 3: Parentage.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Une veuve a deux tâches dont les obligations se contredisent: elle est mère et doit exercer la puissance paternelle.
Source: A Bachelor's Establishment (1842), Ch. I.