Catherine Helen Spence Quotes

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

Catherine Helen Spence

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

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • New York

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Acting

• I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

  

  Indira Varma
  • Children
  • Why
  • Mother

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Time
  • Good
  • Care

• All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Me

• Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Past

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

  

  David Eddings
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • English

• I have spent quite some time in Malaysia, as my mother is from there. And shooting there was a great experience.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Time
  • Great
  • Experience

• I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Mind
  • Training
  • California

• You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

  

  Doris Roberts
  • Mind

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

  

  Lisa See
  • Bad
  • Less

• It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Reality
  • Dancing
  • Myth

• I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Hair
  • Hat

• I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Mind
  • Mother
  • Father