Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

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• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Body
  • Individual
  • Self-Worth

• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Makeup
  • Dresses
  • Gorgeous

• She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • She
  • House
  • Kind

• When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • You
  • Start
  • First

• This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.

  

  James Brown
  • Marriage

• 'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'

  

  Connie Willis
  • Women
  • She

• It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Age
  • Song

• I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Morning
  • Swimming

• I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Parents

• Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Friends
  • Giving
  • Law

• My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

  

  James A. Michener
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  • Great

• Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Champion

• I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Home

• Freedom is not an accident. Progress is not an accident. Democracy is not an accident. These are things that have to be fought for. You’re part of that legacy. They must be won. And they’ve got to be tended to constantly and defended without fail.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Progress

• God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • God
  • Truth

• Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Roles
  • Obsession

• All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Children
  • Sky