Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1059.

  • Abraham Cowley Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • David Mamet Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Josh Billings Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Graham Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Henry Miller Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Colette Dowling Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
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  • Umberto Eco Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Richard Dawkins Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Dan Quayle Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Camille Paglia Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Cat Stevens Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Francesco Petrarca Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Harold Lindsell Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.
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  • Brigham Young Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.
    Race Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 110.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Marguerite Duras She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Cooney She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Aaron Klug Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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