Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or goddesses:
“My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The apple tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted by its fruit. Goddesses are fabled to have contended for it, dragons were set to watch it, and heroes were employed to pluck it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)