Quotes with mother-child

Quotes 641 till 660 of 797.

  • Samuel Butler Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bruce Springsteen There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barney Frank There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her Elsie Fag.
    Responding to Dick Armeys referring to him as Barney Fag, unidentified publication/date
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • James Baldwin There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Mother Teresa There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in -that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Maria Montessori There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Barbra Streisand There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • John Milton This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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