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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.
You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.
I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.
If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.
From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.
On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)
My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.
Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!
I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.
I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.
I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.
I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.
I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.