Maria das Gracas Silva Foster Quotes

I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.

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• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Marriage
  • Constitution
  • Most

• If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Earth
  • Action
  • Alien

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Action
  • Challenge
  • Athlete

• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Way
  • Hard

• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Women
  • Country

• I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Fear
  • Suffering

• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Tattoo

• I think that Shake Shack wouldn't exist had it not been for Twitter. I don't think you would have gotten a hundred New Yorkers to stand in line for an hour if they couldn't have made their time really productive and organized snowball fights, ordered free hot chocolate, and, you know, Instagrammed photos.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Time
  • Free
  • Chocolate

• I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

  

  David Chalmers
  • World
  • Character
  • Nature

• It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Together

• I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Life
  • Different

• As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Mother
  • Energy
  • Calm

• We're always ready for a pick-up game. I walk through the park on the way home every day and just think to myself, 'I'll take on any of these kids.'

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Up
  • Home
  • Kids

• My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • She
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • Up
  • Work
  • She

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Mother

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  Max Ernst

• I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.

  

  Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
  • Mother
  • Transforming