Marge Piercy Quotes

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Popular
  • Share
  • Bear

• I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Experience
  • Team
  • Positive

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Live
  • India

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Work
  • Always
  • Hard Work

• I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Hate
  • Place
  • Grave

• We grow small trying to be great.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Small

• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Sword

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

  

  John Cheever
  • House
  • Fear

• How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.

  

  Diplo
  • Work
  • Mad

• Kate Middleton is intelligent, good looking, kind, and fun, and she is remarkably normal.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Good
  • She
  • Fun

• Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • She
  • Remember
  • Mother