Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
--Don Quixote, "Cervantes"

God is a mother.
--Eugene O'Neill, "Strange Interlude"

No one like one's mother ever lived.
--James Lowell


By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have
regular time off.  They are the great vacationless class.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I cannot bear a mother's tears.
--Vergil, "Aeneid"

Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea
Great heaven of Whales in the waters, old hierarchies.
And enormous mother whatles lie dreaming, suckling their whale-tender young
And dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning
and the end.
--David Lawrence, "Whales Weep Not"