
As quoted in Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town (2004) by Dozier Cade, p. 77
Attributed
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.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
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.”
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 115]
“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
“The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.”
"Thoughts on Lotteries" (1826)
1820s
“Obedience mother is of good success,
Sure pledge of safety.”
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 224–225 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.”