Melissa Etheridge Quotes
Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
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No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
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Love without choice isn't love at all.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.
