Quotes 61 till 80 of 493.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
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As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
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As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
Source: In ongenade (1999) -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
Source: Hamlet (1600) -
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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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.
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