Quotes with step-mother

Quotes 21 till 40 of 573.

  • Robert Frost Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Emily Dickinson Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Thomas à Kempis The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Nelson Boswell The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
    Nelson Boswell
    American author
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  • John Pierpont Morgan The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Joseph Addison We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Graham 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bradley Denton A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Burt Lancaster A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Publilius Syrus A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Bette Midler A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Walter Bagehot A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
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