Maria Wilhelmina Lammens quote: "... de jongen soo verbaast gaauw tegen de stijlte weer op liep, schreeuwende luijtkeels de schuijt vergaat og was ik bij mijn moeder op het landt, van hem een openhartige confessie, door hem geroepen en van andere meer als duijsentmalen gedagt, maar die ijdele wenschen konnen nu niet baten, bidden Godt maar hij ons soo eens met voor en tegenspoet sal laten komen in de have van ons begeerte ..."

When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and let the rest of the world wonder how you did it.
MARIA

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se...
MARIA MONTESSORI

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T...
MARIA BARTIROMO

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe...
MARIA MONTESSORI

What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
MARIA SEMPLE

So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
MARIA MENOUNOS

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person...
MARIA SHRIVER

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl...
MARIA BARTIROMO

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff...
MARIA MONTESSORI

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH

We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God. Keep me on a short leash.
MARIA SC

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
MARIA ROBINSON

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of sh...
MARIA BAMFORD

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a stor...
MARIA SEMPLE

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you'...
MARIA SHRIVER

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.
MARIA CANTWELL

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t...
MARIA MONTESSORI

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
MARIA CALLAS

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the soc...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now workin...
MARIA MONTESSORI

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the v...
MARIA MONTESSORI

How success changes the opinion of men!
MARIA EDGEWORTH

In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. I...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The t...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two d...
MARIA MONTESSORI

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means f...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORI

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the...
MARIA MONTESSORI

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these...
MARIA MONTESSORI

My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in l...
MARIA SHRIVER

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good foo...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to...
MARIA BARTIROMO

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within m...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I want my tennis to speak for everything.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So b...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the wo...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when tha...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

You control your own wins and losses.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessaril...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I know my roots and I cannot forget the journey I made.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around fiv...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
MARIA SHARAPOVA

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS

I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and hee...
MARIA BELLO

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous c...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of th...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging...
MARIA MONK

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
MARIA MENOUNOS

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father -...
MARIA BAMFORD

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true c...
MARIA CANTWELL

All I want to do is be at Hogwarts with you, eating turkey legs in the great hall while listening to...
MARIA ELENA

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a speci...
MARIA BAMFORD

I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would...
MARIA SEMPLE

I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll mani...
MARIA BAMFORD

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothin...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no su...
MARIA BARTIROMO

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS

Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
MARIA KOSZLER

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
MARIA BROOKS

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f...
MARIA SEMPLE

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith...
MARIA CALLAS

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ...
MARIA SEMPLE

The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK

I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug...
MARIA SHRIVER

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...
MARIA MITCHELL

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it...
MARIA BARTIROMO

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomen...
MARIA MONTESSORI

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
MARIA MITCHELL

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the co...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjo...
MARIA MITCHELL

My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi...
MARIA BAMFORD

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th...
MARIA BARTIROMO

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
MARIA MITCHELL

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS

"Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of ...
MARIA BROOKS

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI

I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL

My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS

I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN

My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea...
MARIA VALVERDE

My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,...
MARIA BAMFORD

Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ...
MARIA SHRIVER

I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha...
MARIA BAMFORD

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces...
MARIA CANTWELL

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be...
MARIA BARTIROMO

It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets.
MARIA BARRAGAN

When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck.
MARIA MARTINEZ

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE

The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
MARIA MITCHELL

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not
MARIA MITCHELL

I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t...
MARIA SEMPLE

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
MARIA CALLAS

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a...
MARIA SEMPLE

Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.
MARIA ERVING

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good momen...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

The ego is the self that is unaware of itself so unless you seek first who you are not, the ego will...
MARIA ERVING

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of...
MARIA JERITZA

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a f...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's...
MARIA SEMPLE

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unr...
MARIA SEMPLE

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somew...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they wo...
MARIA BROPHY

Painting is a messy business.
MARIA BROPHY

If a client doesn’t value your work, then you shouldn’t sell it to them cheap, or trade it, & de...
MARIA BROPHY

I have found that the people who don't like contracts because they say contracts show lack of trust ...
MARIA BROPHY

I'm very happy to win the inaugural title,
MARIA SHARAPOVA

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be...
MARIA MONTESSORI

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