Birth Mother

Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or mother:

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

““But mama,
you have such pretty hair,
curled,
Io has a mother too.””
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)