Quotes with mother

Quotes 361 till 380 of 384.

  • Benjamin Disraeli When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Schneier When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
    Stross, Randall (2004)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Bill Murray While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Anne Northup Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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  • Betsey Johnson With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Frost You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Bush You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Dogen You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
    Dogen
    Japanese Zen-teacher
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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