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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. — Miguel de Cervantes
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. — Miguel de Cervantes
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. — Miguel de Cervantes
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate… — Margaret Chan
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does… — Chanakya
My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer. — Kyle Chandler
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down… — Coco Chanel
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. — Gracie Allen
We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her. — Georgina Chapman
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my… — Tracy Chapman
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin. — Tracy Chapman
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. — Dick Cheney
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all… — Cher
'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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were… — Julia Child
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. — Lee Child
My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and… — Margaret Cho
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. — Noam Chomsky
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at… — Noam Chomsky
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself… — Agatha Christie
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it. — Chris Christie
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for… — Amy Chua
Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion. — Amy Chua

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