Quotes with mother

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  • Anna Freud It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
    The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • A. A. Milne James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Karl Kraus Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Mother Teresa Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Mother Teresa Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Camille Paglia Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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