Wilma Rudolph Quotes

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Wilma Rudolph

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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp
- World
- Mother
- Father
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Ingmar Bergman
- People
- World
- Great
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

Rabih Alameddine
- Up
- Mother
- Books
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

Saint Teresa of Avila
- Good
- God
- Mother
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

Nate Berkus
- She
- Mother
- House
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