Famous quotes containing the words mother of, mother and/or mark:
“Don Pedro. You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.
Beatrice. So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himself in her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant’s feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)