Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 381 till 400 of 493.

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Malcolm X The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Carol P. Christ The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bryce Courtenay The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Walker The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Anne Sexton The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Anita Dunn The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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  • Mother Teresa The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • John Keble The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
    John Keble
    English poet (1792 - 1866)
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • James Thurber The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Florence King The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Avicenna The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Bruce Springsteen There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barney Frank There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her Elsie Fag.
    Responding to Dick Armeys referring to him as Barney Fag, unidentified publication/date
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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