Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1059.

  • Miguel de Cervantes Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bryn Terfel Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Woody Allen What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy What do I have
    to help me, without spell or prayer,
    endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,
    the death of love?
    Over, from Rapture (2004)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • David Malouf What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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  • Dave Barry What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Seneca What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Susan Sontag What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Blake What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller What shall he fear that does not fear death.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Mario Puzo What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Henry van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • James Joyce Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • C. S. Forester When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    The African Queen (1935)
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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