Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1059.

  • John Ruskin Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Julius Caesar Which death is preferably to every other? ''The unexpected''.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Bill Murray While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Anne Northup Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anna Akhmatova Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Wit is the epitaph on the death of an emotion.
    Original: Der Witz ist das Epigramm auf den Tod eines Gefühls.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Betsey Johnson With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • James Lendall Basford Wrinkles are beauty's death lines.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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