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mother children pride
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. Charles Dickens
mother determination father
what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been
mother children heart
The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.
mother sweet pain
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.
mother nature garden
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...
mother nature children
"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."
mother butterfly garden
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.
mother abode wells
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.
mother errors reform
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. Charles Simmons
eccentricity
Eccentricity is developed monomania. Bayard Taylor
eccentric ridiculous unexpected
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! Brandon Sanderson
eccentric
We don't know if someone is overtly friendly, an eccentric or a predator. Capt. Richter
eccentric figured people
I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'
eccentric movies musician painter time tried works
So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room. Tony Kaye
eccentric funny gone jobs meeting plan saying teacher worker wrote york
I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down. Adrian McKinty
eccentric imagination race though took unequal
. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. Fanny Burney
eccentric huge issue robert
I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
eccentric freedom great maybe people wonderful
Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great! Sylvester McCoy
adults young young-adult
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. Elizabeth Olsen
adults relatable
The adults were completely wrong. Aaron Swartz
adults sometimes feels
Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult Art Spiegelman
adults may facts
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. David Foster Wallace
adults opinion instinct
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. Bertrand Russell
adults ethics
I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic. Joan Didion
adults intermittent
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. Erik Larson
adults orphan delirious
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. John Irving
adults weaponry manifestation
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult. Hayao Miyazaki