Mother Divine

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or divine:

“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.

To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. “Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27)

“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)