Quotes with mother-death

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  • Beatrice Wood But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • William Shakespeare But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • James Russell Lowell But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Eliot But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker (1959 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ann Oakley Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • John Dewey Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Wayne Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Earl Wilson Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Seneca Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Confucius Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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