Quotes with step-mother

Quotes 101 till 120 of 573.

  • Philip K. Dick Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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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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  • Bill Drayton Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Boris Pasternak Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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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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  • Cormac McCarthy Ever step you take is forever.
    No Country for Old Men (2007) 227
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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