“A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.”

— Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

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American author 1958

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 76

“His voice, like a malted milkshake marinated for more than seventy years, has a slightly monotonous lilt - rather like a Hindu chanting Bagavad Gita.”

Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster

Description of Walter Battiss from her interview with Battiss published in the Just Jani column of the Sunday Times, republished in Face Value by Jani Allan.
Sunday Times

“Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”

Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman

Forgotten Home http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21398/Forgotten_Home
From the poems written in English

“I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.”

William Congreve Love for Love

Act III, scene iii
Love for Love (1695)

“We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen through corresponding laws.”

Elena Ceaușescu (1916–1989) Romanian politician

Statements at trial http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C5%9Fescu (25 December 1989)

“Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

“Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss
to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair,
is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade,
at every wind-puff scattered and unmade.”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

La fama che invaghisce a un dolce suono
Voi superbi mortali, e par si bella,
E un'ecco, un sogno, anzi del sogno un'ombra,
Ch'ad ogni vento si dilegua e sgombra.
Canto XIV, stanza 63 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

“Find a voice in a whisper.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.”

William Blake London

London, st. 2
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

“A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.”

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