Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes
I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.
Quotes to Explore
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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We are being obliged to consider the significance of woman and her existence as a problem. We cannot evade the question as to what we are and what we should be.
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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.
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I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily should agree with everything the federal NDP says. I don't think she should disagree with everything the federal Conservatives say. I think that Albertans and Canadians as a whole, as I always say, are looking for pragmatic politicians with pragmatic solutions to their problems, and they want the best ideas to move forward, regardless of who has that idea.
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I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.
