Herbert Spencer Quotes

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

Herbert Spencer

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• Speech
• Manners
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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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• '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.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Fun

• 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

• 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.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Mother
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Live
  • Children

• 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

• 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.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mother

• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Silent
  • Affairs

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• '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.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• 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.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Children
  • Fighting

• Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Children
  • Parents

• My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

  

  Broderick Crawford
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perfect

• I was a mother's boy.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Mother
  • Boy

• 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.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Mother
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Beryl Bainbridge
  • Children
  • Shoes
  • Blisters

• My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • She
  • Mother

• In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Children
  • America
  • Today

• I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

  

  Geoffrey Giuliano
  • Children
  • Creatures
  • Selling

• Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Lazy

• I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • God
  • Power
  • Responsibility

• The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

  

  Naseem Hamed
  • Fight
  • Loss
  • Accept

• The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Speech