Quotes with step-mother

Quotes 121 till 140 of 573.

  • O. Sitwell Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.
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  • Bill Dedman Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fear is the mother of morality.
    Original: Die Furcht ist die Mutter der Moral.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Ben Simmons For me, I always try and deliver. Regardless of the situation, I always try and play hard every time I step out on the court. If I don't deliver and play well, then I know I haven't been working hard enough.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Eileen Stukane For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much - anticipated vacation.
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Marguerite Duras For that's what a woman, a mother wants to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Cassiodorus For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
    Variae, Bk. 9, no. 21; p. 122
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Alfred Rosenberg From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Jane Austen From politics it was an easy step to silence.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Arthur Golden Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Robert Byrne Getting caught is the mother of invention.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Barbara Lynn God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mark Twain Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Augustus Hare Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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