Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1059.

  • Cate Blanchett When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • William Shakespeare When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
    Julius Caesar II, ii, 30-31
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Eliot When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Bridges When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
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  • Beth Ditto When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brendan Behan When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bennet Omalu When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Beau Mirchoff When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
    Beau Mirchoff
    Canadian-American actor (1989 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Schneier When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
    Stross, Randall (2004)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • W. C. Fields When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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