Mother Saint

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or saint:

    “our part
    To murmur name upon name,
    As a mother names her child
    When sleep at last has come
    On limbs that had run wild.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Alone, alone, all, all alone,
    Alone on a wide wide sea!
    And never a saint took pity on
    My soul in agony.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)