Famous quotes containing the words meaning and/or mother:
“‘Tis good to give a stranger a meal or a night’s lodging. ‘Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)