Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
Meghan O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
Naomie Harris
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
Nate Berkus
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
Laura Moser
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
Warren Rudman
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
Otto Wallach
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
Oleg Deripaska
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Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Roland Joffe
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My family's journey is something I am very proud of - in front of me, behind me and every part.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
John Heywood
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Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.
Sandra Cisneros
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When I first met YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, I was moderating a panel she was on for Harvard alums. We were both wrapping up our maternity leaves. She had just had her fifth child; I'd just had my second. We traded tips on maternity clothes, and I peppered her with questions about how she finds her balance.
Emily Chang
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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
Meghan O'Rourke
