Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

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• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• 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

• My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • American
  • Mother
  • Parents

• If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Nice

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

  

  Chris Abani
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • People
  • Mother
  • Earth

• You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Dream

• My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Home
  • Mother

• My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

  

  Arizona Muse
  • She
  • Mother
  • English

• I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

  

  Joan Sutherland
  • Great
  • She
  • Remember

• I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

  

  Al Green
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Great
  • Power
  • Mother

• Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Suicide

• A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on me, have always been with directors who have the time to somehow get to know me. Any good director's going to be curious about who it is that's coming aboard.

  

  Elias Koteas
  • Time
  • Good

• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Purpose

• Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Religion
  • Response
  • Historian

• Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Mother
  • Building
  • Dancing