Great man Quote by Olive Schreiner Download Open image “There was never a great man who had not a great mother.” — Olive Schreiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great man Great men Great mother Men Mom Mother Parenting
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children. — Cissy Houston Copy Share Image
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. — Jill Churchill Copy Share Image
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.” — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
