Mother

William Blake Poet, Painter

Mother

"Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast."

Mother Father Struggle

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

Mother

"I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb."

Mother Light Body

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

Mother

"I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun."

Mother Reality Moon

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

Mother

"Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose."

Mother Light Worship

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist

Mother

"Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)"

Mother Pay Forget

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist

Mother

"I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed."

Mother Father Tired

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist

Mother

"Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)"

Home Mother Night

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist

Mother

"Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual."

Lying Mother Mystical Experiences

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William Julius Wilson Sociologist, Author

Mother

"If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare."

People Moving Mother

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William S. Burroughs Writer

Mother

"First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother."

Mother Drinking Beer

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."

Mother Brother Ocean

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears."

Eye Mother Tears

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"Hardness ever of hardness is mother."

Mother Tyranny Hardness

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"Which means she to deceive, father or mother?"

Lying Mother Father

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

Mother Done Villain

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing."

Mother Father Stars

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame."

Mother Names Revenge

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Mother

"What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours."

Men Mother Father

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William Watson Poet

Mother

"O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call."

Children Mother Stars

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William Wordsworth Poet

Mother

"Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!"

Mother Sleep Blessed

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