Quotes with mother-in-law

Quotes 141 till 160 of 791.

  • Aleister Crowley Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • John Gay Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Camille Paglia Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie Education is the mother of leadership.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Andre Norton Either the law exists, or it does not.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • John Bright England is the mother of Parliaments.
    Source: Speech at Birmingham (1865)
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • J. Bright England, the mother of Parliaments.
    J. Bright
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Commoner Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    Source: The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Maria Mitchell Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
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  • Jeremy Bentham Every law is an infraction of liberty.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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