Desmond Tutu Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Mother, Children

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Kings, Successful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Boys, Men

• When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Children, Night

• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

• Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Macho, Teresa

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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