Quotes with mother-child

Quotes 761 till 780 of 797.

  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Colin Powell Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Bill Cosby Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Billie Holiday Yes, the strong gets more
    While the weak ones fade
    Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bob Ney Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Michael Moore You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Miller You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Frost You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • W. H. Auden You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Bush You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bryan Batt You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it's the most intense it can ever be.' Then you have a child, and it's like - it's huge!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Toni Morrison You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Dogen You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
    Dogen
    Japanese Zen-teacher
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