Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 161 till 180 of 493.

  • Mother Teresa I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Groucho Marx I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Agnes Macphail I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Shirley Temple Black I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Mother Teresa I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Adam Sandler I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • H. Youngman I was so ugly when I was born; the doctor slapped my mother.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Anne Tyler I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Mother Teresa I'd rather bathe lepers than be interviewed by the press.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Jackie Kennedy I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
    Jackie Kennedy
    First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1929 - 1994)
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  • Elizabeth, Queen's Mother I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.
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  • Elizabeth Taylor I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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