Martin Dempsey Quotes

My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• 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
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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
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• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
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• All mankind love a lover.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
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• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Morning
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• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Up
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• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
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• Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

  

  Karen Bender
  • She
  • Job
  • Mother

• My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Mother
  • Educated

• I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician.

  

  Angela Lansbury
  • Great
  • She
  • Mother

• Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • My Family

• I can clap with one hand.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Hand
  • I Can
  • Clap

• A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

  

  Andrae Crouch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • Mother