I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'.. view

By: Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?.. view

By: Richard Land

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So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them... view

By: Thomas Hooker

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A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium... view

By: Mary Kay Blakely

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials... view

By: Meryl Streep

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For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run... view

By: John Sununu

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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone... view

By: George Foreman

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But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses... view

By: Jerome K. Jerome

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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs... view

By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians... view

By: Anne Rice

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Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday... view

By: O. J. Simpson

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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law... view

By: Pope Gregory VII

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