Quotations About / On: MOTHER

  • 41.
    Fall on the ground, O great Wetness, O Mother, No harm on thy body!
    (Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Wales Visitation (l. 60). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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  • 42.
    May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
    (Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 264.)
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  • 43.
    Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
    (Gloria Steinem (20th century), U.S. feminist and author. New York Times (August 26, 1971).)
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  • 44.
    Mother, I cannot mind my wheel;
    My fingers ache, my lips are dry:
    (Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Mother, I Cannot Mind (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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  • 45.
    Mother or Murderer, you have
    given or taken life—
    Now all is one!
    (Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), British poet. Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise (l. 14-16). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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  • 46.
    'Don't be afraid of me because I'm just coming back home from
    the mental hospital—I'm your mother—'
    (Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Kaddish (l. 79). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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  • 47.
    You'd leave your own mother here, if the rules called for it.
    (Michael Wilson (1914-1978), U.S. screenwriter, Carl Foreman (1914-1984), and David Lean. Shears (William Holden) to Warden (Jack Hawkins), The Bridge on the River Kwai, when Warden asks to be left behind on a mission following his injury (1957). Wilson and Foreman were originally uncredited because they were blacklisted; novelist Pierre Boulle, who spoke no English, received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. A restored version of the film credits all three writers.)
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  • 48.
    Frankie! Frankie! Your mother forgives me.
    (Dudley Nichols (1895-1960), U.S. screenwriter. Gypo (Victor McLaglen), The Informer, after Mrs. McPhillip (Una O'Connor) gives him absolution, at the fade-out (1935).)
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  • 49.
    To round that shell's elaborate whorl,
    Adorning every secret track
    With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
    Made the joints of Heaven crack....
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "II. Crazy Jane Reproved.")
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  • 50.
    I will be all things to you. Father, mother, husband, counselor, Japanese bartender.
    (Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields), My Little Chickadee, offer to Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) as he attempts to woo her (1940).)
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