Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1059.

  • Mother Teresa I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • P. Henry I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
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  • Patrick Henry I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Julius Caesar I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Groucho Marx I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
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  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Anais Nin I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Shirley Temple Black I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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