Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Rest
  • Best

• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Child
  • Meeting

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Peace
  • Me
  • Child

• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Just
  • Point
  • Almost

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Child
  • Prejudice

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Growing
  • Best
  • Child

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Child
  • Rebel

• The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Way
  • Child
  • Survive

• Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Me
  • Star
  • Child

• It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • For Her

• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• Everything is possible to him that dares.

  

  A. G. Spalding
  • Possible
  • Dares

• Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Child
  • Point