Herbert Spencer Quotes
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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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.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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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 went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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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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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.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
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My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
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I was a mother's boy.
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It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.
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Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
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My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
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I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
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The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
