Walter Wangerin Quotes

I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

Walter Wangerin

• Mother
• Taken
• Influence
• Fortune
• Goodness
• Treasure

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• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

  

  Jack Bowman
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• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
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• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

  

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

  

  Indira Varma
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• In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • World
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• I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Taken
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• I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Mother
  • Crazy
  • Just

• In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Remember
  • Mother
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• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
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  • Mother

• I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.

  

  Marina Abramovic
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• I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

  

  Dorothy Malone
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• Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
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• It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Mother

• I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.

  

  Connie Stevens
  • Mother
  • Walking

• The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Children
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• One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.

  

  Michael Wolf
  • Reading
  • Working
  • Places

• Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Time
  • Die
  • Born

• It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Money
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• I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Influence