“As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.”
Vanessa Redgrave (1937) English actress
Redgrave: Actress and campaigner http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2551773.stm, (6 December 2002), BBC News. accessed 17 December 2006.
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
Variant: When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Source: For One More Day
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
G.D. Birla's account of his conversation with Churchill in a letter to Gandhi (September 1935), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 619
The 1930s
“I have looked for you. Now you have come to me. And I thank you.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
In the papal apartment in the Vatican City on 1 April 2005, shortly before his death <br class="br">Source: Śmierć Papieża, Jana Pawła II http://kalendarium.polska.pl/wydarzenia/article.htm?id=35343 (Polish)
“Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
