George Herbert Palmer Quotes

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert Palmer

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• You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
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• The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
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• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

  

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Mom
  • Sleep

• My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Strong

• My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Crazy

• A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mother
  • Man
  • Wife

• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Good
  • Women
  • Mother

• I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Mother
  • Hope

• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mother
  • Feel
  • Better

• I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Play

• I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• My personal memories of the brand go way back to the time when I was a teenager. L'Oreal make-up felt like a real luxury for me, and I remember dreaming of purchasing a L'Oreal lipstick.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Nice

• with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.

  

  Anita Loos
  • World
  • Night
  • Community

• One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

  

  George Herbert Palmer
  • Mother
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  • Schoolmasters