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.
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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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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 didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
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Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
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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.
