Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

My secret is simple -- I pray.

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Deep
  • Secret

• I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

  

  Jack Miller
  • People
  • Angry
  • Pray

• A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

  

  Buck Owens
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• They don't know you're secretly a badass?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Secret
  • Badass

• I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.

  

  Otto Frank
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Secret
  • Strange
  • Blind

• The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Success
  • Secret

• Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

  

  Lisa See
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Secret

• Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Everyday

• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Action
  • Secret
  • Strength

• There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Men
  • Different
  • Art

• The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.

  

  Nicky Romero
  • Play
  • Talent
  • Track

• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • History
  • Financial

• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Need

• My secret is simple -- I pray.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Secret
  • Pray