Quotes with step-mother

Quotes 161 till 180 of 573.

  • Marguerite Duras I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • William Butler Yeats I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George H.W. Bush I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Malcolm X I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Warren Buffett I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Alfred M. Gray I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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  • Agatha Christie I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
    An Autobiography (1977) part III, sect. 2
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Mother Teresa I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Rosa Parks I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Mother Teresa I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Groucho Marx I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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