Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or buddha:
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.”
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
“The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
and overrules the oncoming roar
of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)