Quotes with mother-death

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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Annie Leibovitz The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Lenny Bruce The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Mark Twain The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
    Telegram naar Associated Press (1897)
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sexton The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Carol Shields The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
    De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008)
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bobby Rush The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Larkin The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's on fire in a real death waltz
    Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
    Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
    They just stand back and let it all be
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anita Dunn The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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  • Norman Cousins The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Mother Teresa The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Gates The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Paula Poundstone The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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  • John Keble The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
    John Keble
    English poet (1792 - 1866)
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  • William Shakespeare The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Conrad The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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