„Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.“

„People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.“

—  Rachel Caine American writer 1962

Quelle: Ill Wind

„It's a natural achievement,
Conquering my homework
With her image pounding in my brain.
She's an inspiration
For my graduation,
And she helps to keep the classroom sane.“

—  Elton John English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist 1947

Teacher I Need You
Song lyrics, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (1973)

„She talks about how Brahms baby sat them while her mother, Clara, was out earning a living, concertizing all over Europe. Brahms continued in their lives until his death. She also talks about her loving relationship with her mother; her usual sibling like relationships with the other Schumann children; and how she would get mad at Brahms when he would make her mother sad, even cry, but none of them could be mad at Brahms for very long.“

—  Harry Markowitz American economist 1927

On Eugene Schumann http://www.amazon.com/review/R280VQKJ4LC7OI

„I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.“

—  Amy Hempel Short story writer 1951

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempe, (2006)

„A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.“

—  Sarah Strohmeyer American writer 1950

Quelle: Kindred Spirits

„I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.“

—  Augusten Burroughs, buch Running with Scissors

Quelle: Running with Scissors

„In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others“

—  Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

1850s, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Kontext: There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people, to the idea of an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races; and Judge Douglas evidently is basing his chief hope, upon the chances of being able to appropriate the benefit of this disgust to himself. If he can, by much drumming and repeating, fasten the odium of that idea upon his adversaries, he thinks he can struggle through the storm. He therefore clings to this hope, as a drowning man to the last plank. He makes an occasion for lugging it in from the opposition to the Dred Scott decision. He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declaration of Independence includes ALL men, black as well as white; and forth-with he boldly denies that it includes negroes at all, and proceeds to argue gravely that all who contend it does, do so only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either, I can just leave her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others.

„The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.“

—  C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

"Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939). In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P. 186

„The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into her head to make a man, she fits him with her own equipment and educates him in her own school.“

—  Clarence Darrow American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1857 - 1938

Voltaire (1916)

„The integrity, beauty and fragrance of future society should be expressed through mothers. The mother is the first teacher. As such, she is the one who can influence a child the most. Whatever the mother does, the child will imbibe. A mother’s breast milk does more than nourish just the baby’s body. It also develops the baby’s mind, intellect and heart. Similarly, the life values a mother transmits to her child give it strength and courage in the future.“

—  Mata Amritanandamayi Hindu spiritual leader and guru 1953

The Infinite Potential of Women (2008)

„Nature is our mother. She is not a resource for human consumption.“

—  Krishna Kant Shukla Indian Classical musician 1959

„A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.“

—  Samuel Lover Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter 1797 - 1868

The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.“

—  Isaac Leib Peretz Yiddish language author and playwright 1852 - 1915

Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 162.

„She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.“

—  James Thurber, buch My Life and Hard Times

My Life and Hard Times (1933) page 33, Harper & Row, New York.
From other writings

„The first time I ever saw footage of a mother pig, in a more natural environment, making a nest for her babies, it brought me to tears realizing the frustration they must feel in farrowing crates.“

—  Lauren Ornelas American activist

"Some Pig" https://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-some-pig.html, All-Creatures.org (April 2013).

„Her haughtiness and habit of domination was, therefore, a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her, and it deserted her when her eyes were opened to the extent of her own danger, as well as that of her lover and her guardian; and when she found her will, the slightest expression of which was wont to command respect and attention, now placed in opposition to that of a man of a strong, fierce, and determined mind, who possessed the advantage over her, and was resolved to use it, she quailed before him.“

—  Walter Scott, buch Ivanhoe

Quelle: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 23.

„when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural“

—  Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898

Quelle: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

„It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.“

—  Anatole France French writer 1844 - 1924

Il est à peu près impossible de constituer systématiquement une morale naturelle. La nature n'a pas de principes. Elle ne nous fournit aucune raison de croire que la vie humaine est respectable. La nature, indifférente, ne fait nulle distinction du bien et du mal.
La Révolte des Anges [The Revolt of the Angels] (1914), ch. XXVII

„Mother Mary, like us, was born in sin of sinful parents, but the Holy Spirit covered her, sanctified and purified her so that this child was born of flesh and blood, but not with sinful flesh and blood. The Holy Spirit permitted the Virgin Mary to remain a true, natural human being of flesh and blood, just as we. However, he warded off sin from her flesh and blood so that she became the mother of a pure child, not poisoned by sin as we are. For in that moment when she conceived, she was a holy mother filled with the Holy Spirit and her fruit is a holy pure fruit, at once God and truly man, in one person“

—  Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546

The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther (1905) edited by John Nicholas Lenker; republished as Sermons of Martin Luther (1996), p. 291