Quotes with mother-child

Quotes 161 till 180 of 797.

  • Mother Teresa Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Elizabeth Jennings Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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  • John Gay Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
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  • Jeanette Winterson Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
    Lighthousekeeping (2006) 116
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Don't set your wit against a child.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Douglas Adams Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Camille Paglia Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Boomer Esiason Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie Education is the mother of leadership.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • John Bright England is the mother of Parliaments.
    Speech at Birmingham (1865)
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • J. Bright England, the mother of Parliaments.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oswald C. Hoffman Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human.
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  • Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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