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O Sisters, if we would only comprehend the fact that while the Eucharistic Species remain within us, Jesus is there and working… — Magdalena de Pazzi Copy Share Image
“He wills that we take ourselves with great strength to the faith of holy Church and find there our most precious mother… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
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“I remember your parents' funeral, JJ. It was the hardest one I'd ever done in my career... I didn't think I was… — Jillian Dodd Copy Share Image
When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn't take it very lightly. My friends thought that it… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother." No way. You check with their personal secretaries… — Mike Shepherd Copy Share Image
I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They)… — Jeremih Copy Share Image
“Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck.… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
“Dorothy viewed my mother's propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
“When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing… — Elmina Drake Slenker Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
“You must have been the best mother in the world. Have prayed seventeen times a day...just for me. Been the strongest woman… — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Don't cry for me, Empress. I'm not worth it." "I'm not crying for you," she said, placing her hand against his cheek.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“What is being a Scot like?" Ellice heard her mother ask. 'Oh, no.' "A certain independence of spirit,"she answered before the men… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
In high school, I interned at my mother's restaurant and learned the small-business ropes. It was really instructive and taught me to… — Caroline Ghosn Copy Share Image
You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have… — Virginia M. Axline Copy Share Image
I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years,… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I want to ask parents, when daughters turn 11 or 14, they keep a tab on their movements. Have these parents ever… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to… — Lucy Hawking Copy Share Image
“I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, "It's a beautiful day. Why… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The mother of the heating contractor does not Have the same problem as the mother of the poet. When the mother of… — Matt Cook Copy Share Image
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The rich man in Hell looked with the deepest concern upon the affairs of the earth and said, "I pray thee therefore,… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
