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

• In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;While words of learned length, and thundering soundAmazed the gazing rustics ranged around;And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,That one small head could carry all he knew.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Words
  • Small
  • Wonder

• 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
  • Up
  • 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

• You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Great
  • Game

• Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Children
  • Society

• We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Important
  • Faith

• 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