"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."

Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist

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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

Thurgood Marshall, American Judge

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"My mother taught me to read."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."

Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

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"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."

Marta Kristen, American Actress

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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."

Jane Birkin, English Actress

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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."

Hoagy Carmichael, American Composer

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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."

Marta Kristen, American Actress

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"I am no mother, and I won't be one."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

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God

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."

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"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."

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"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."

"My mother taught me to read."

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."

"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."

"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."

"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."

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"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."

"There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men."

"Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying."

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."

"The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."

"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."