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I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger. Mother

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• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• 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
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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  • God
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• 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

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• 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
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• I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

  

  Samantha Power
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  • Mother
  • Me

• If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Mother
  • Woman
  • Problems

• I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother is 90 percent blind and deaf. She left and moved all the way to California. So I left my two older sisters and my father behind at the age of eleven and moved cross-country to take care of her.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Country
  • She
  • Mother

• One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mother
  • Stars
  • Eternity

• What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • America
  • Never
  • Enthusiastic

• There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Important
  • Veteran

• Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Meditation

• I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger. Mother

  

  Michael Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Abortion
  • Questionnaires