Quotes with mother-death

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  • Søren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • William Shakespeare Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
    Henry VI 1, 4
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • J.M. Coetzee Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
    In ongenade (1999)
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Robert Wilson Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Francis Picabia Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • John Arbuthnot Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
    John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Samuel Butler Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • T. S. Eliot Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Omar Bradley Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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  • Bodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Iris Murdoch But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Captain Beefheart But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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