Quotes with mother

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  • Henry Louis Mencken Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
    Henrietta Temple (1837) 2, ch. 1
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.'
    Democracy the best revenge, says Bilawal, Dawn (Internet). December 31, 2007/Zilhaj 20, 1428.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Diligence is the mother of good luck.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mother Teresa Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Elizabeth Jennings Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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  • John Gay Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
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  • Camille Paglia Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie Education is the mother of leadership.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • John Bright England is the mother of Parliaments.
    Speech at Birmingham (1865)
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • J. Bright England, the mother of Parliaments.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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