The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to…

The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about…

— Vali Myers

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

— Mary Church Terrell

When the cross of your life seems so heavy to bear, don't ask God to lighten the cross, but ask him to strengthen your…

— Ritu Ghatourey

I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent…

— Gene Wilder

No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.

— Sheila Heti

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

— Cheryl Strayed

“Murder was a terrible thing. Even if you’re not quite right in the head, you can realize that much. Mother must be suffering quite…

— Robert Bloch

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

— Julia Glass

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

— John of the Cross

When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.…

— Henry Allen Ironside

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

— Jacques Roumain

My team mates are fundamental for my characteristics, if they send in crosses I can play inside the area.

— Filippo Inzaghi