Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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• Eternity
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• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Singing
  • Brother

• Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Gay
  • Baby

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Mother
  • Democrat
  • Southern

• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Guy

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Play

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Time
  • Age
  • Gold

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mother
  • Hero
  • Greatest

• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Mother
  • Wish

• My mother's cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • She
  • Mother

• As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat, and then sometimes go to my friend's house and eat again. I could gain five pounds in a day. In a week, there wouldn't be a scale to weigh me.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Mother
  • House
  • Friend

• Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Mother
  • City
  • Church

• I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • People
  • Think
  • Secrets

• I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Good
  • Women
  • True

• One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mother
  • Stars
  • Eternity