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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.
I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.
The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.
I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.
My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.
My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.
So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!
I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.
I'm just living my life and I’m being the best mother that I can and showing that on Teen Mom because that's what that show is about.
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.
Being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right.
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.