Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
Maria Shriver
Related When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give... HONORE DE BALZAC Founders never leave our memories for they leave indelible footprints on our minds. They give us the... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give... HONORE DE BALZAC Who among us does not have flaws?
Who does not bear scars?
Each of our journeys unique.
Our adversit... JILL ANZINGER Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE ... JONATHAN DAVIS Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes fo... DREXEL DEAL It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they... ELLEN DEGENERES We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our chil... KATHRYN HARRISON Medicine cure us and give us relief from all type of ailments/diseases provided they are taken on th... YAJUR VEDA We all learn by our mistakes, but if mistakes didn't leave us a lesson, I think we can wait for a mi... KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES They're special. We're blessed to have them. They help us in so many different ways. They help us wi... DENNIS ROLAND We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, ... RONALD REAGAN Give me my polling centre to vote Preval. They told us to wake up early to go to vote. Many of us di... JEAN NAZAIRE Emotions are our friends when they urge us into action, but enemies when the guide that action. JIM GENOVESE We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us... ADAM BRAUN Others want what they cannot get from us and when we finally give into their demands, We no longer w... ROSEMARIE YUSEN The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us kno... AGNES GUND We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We la... MARK TWAIN In the eyes of the West, they have the right to occupy our land, rob our wealth and then insult us a... AYMAN AL-ZAWAHRI We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us. MARTIN LUTHER We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they a... MARIE DE SEVIGNE We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abu... MARIE DE SEVIGNE Friends are like sails – they help shield us against storms and provide the force that helps direc... BROWNELL LANDRUM They wanted to give them to us, but a state agency can't accept gifts. LEA STOKES They have no case against us. All we were doing was showing the government that it must give us our ... GEORGE ISHAQ The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or... ESTHER EARL Having driven the style of course they are going to give us, trust me when I say it's brutal. BRUCE HALL Our weaknesses give us our greatest lessons. Do not ignore them. ANONYMOUS USER We are very happy; they gave us the visa, so (Cuba) can now give us an exit permit. ERNESTO HERNANDEZ The government thought they could intimidate us ... they had no other choice but to give [us the inf... TOM ANGELL They showed their instant love for us and us for them the next morning when we went to leave. So man... DOUGLAS NIMMO Whatever form they take, families are our most time-honoured settings for giving and receiving love,... DR BRIAN BABINGTON We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small... NINA LACOUR They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the Tu... KEMAL ATATURK If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are mot... ABDOULAYE WADE Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get... CAROLINE KNAPP That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us l... BARTLETT SHER Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, an... TARIQ RAMADAN God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. VOLTAIRE Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of al... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate f... ROBERT JORDAN The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason... US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ... US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise... US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t... US CONSTITUTION The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeki... MADAME DE LAMBERT The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seek... MADAME DE LAMBERT The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly ... YUVAL NOAH HARARI Another benefit of this book would be if people give us their photograph collections, if they realiz... ANN THOMPSON Our defense really stepped up late in the game. Buckeye Local didn't give up. They kept coming after... GREG TAGLIERI Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With... VINCENT VAN GOGH Life can give us a number of beautiful friends;
But;
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.. the perfume of l... SAIOM SHRIVER We sought out iconic companies who make iconic products. BOBBY SHRIVER But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon. LIONEL SHRIVER He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi... LIONEL SHRIVER Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an... LIONEL SHRIVER Beware of what "everybody says". LIONEL SHRIVER Discomfort begets discomfort in others. LIONEL SHRIVER Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage... LIONEL SHRIVER His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic... LIONEL SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. LIONEL SHRIVER That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. LIONEL SHRIVER People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. LIONEL SHRIVER Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi... LIONEL SHRIVER I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. SARGENT SHRIVER I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be ... SARGENT SHRIVER In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run ... SARGENT SHRIVER A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral. SARGENT SHRIVER My own apathy is bone chilling. LIONEL SHRIVER It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. LIONEL SHRIVER I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my ch... LIONEL SHRIVER The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions... SARGENT SHRIVER It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away... LIONEL SHRIVER As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occu... SARGENT SHRIVER Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n... LIONEL SHRIVER Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said.... LIONEL SHRIVER In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful. LIONEL SHRIVER There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero,... LIONEL SHRIVER He's at home recovering and is doing great. EVELYN SHRIVER I think I had been something of a nuisance. They thought if I had my hands full, I wouldn't bother t... EVELYN SHRIVER He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing. LIONEL SHRIVER He wasn't mad, he was sad. LIONEL SHRIVER Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we ag... LIONEL SHRIVER The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive... LIONEL SHRIVER We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved o... LIONEL SHRIVER I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its tot... LIONEL SHRIVER Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just ... LIONEL SHRIVER When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and let the rest of the world wonder how you did it. MARIA Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse
made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by
... S N SHRIVER 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 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 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