However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent

Quote by Pope Pius XI

Topics: Mothers Quotes, Pity Quotes

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private...

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you...

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the...

She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into...

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into...

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be...

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be...

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call...

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call...

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are...

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are...

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a...

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a...

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another...

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another...

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe...

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you...

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning...

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do...

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never...

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never...