Dead Mother

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or mother:

    For all of him dead and
    gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
    clings to our speech black god of our time.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference—asking good questions—made me become a scientist.
    Isidor Isaac Rabi (20th century)