Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
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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.
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Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.
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When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship.
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I believe in God and the power of prayer.
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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
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American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
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Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
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My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
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I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
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I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.
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Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.
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Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
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Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
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Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
