Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 821 till 840 of 1059.

  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • George Meredith The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Theodore M. Hesburgh The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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  • Calvin Trillin The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Malcolm X The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Carol P. Christ The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Frank Dane The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements.''
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • George Orwell The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Bratt The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Will Rogers The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Thomas Mann The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Bryce Courtenay The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Walker The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Howard Nemerov The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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