Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 181 till 200 of 493.

  • Becki Newton I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Emily Post Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Abdul Kalam If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Sigmund Freud If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William Faulkner If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carrie Fisher If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • H. Youngman If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • David Rockerfeller If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Mother Teresa If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Betty Friedan If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.
    Source: The Fountain of Age
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Alex Trebek If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ''it.''
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Mother Theresa If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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  • Bunker Roy In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • George Herbert In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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