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


Henry Ward Beecher

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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HENRY WARD BEECHER Books are the windows through
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HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
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HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
CHARLES DICKENS Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Daemon was a total babe, but he was stab-worthy, which at times zeroed out the babe part. Not always...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he ...
AMBROSE BIERCE He rolled his eyes. " What Claire?"Claire snickered. " Corned-beef again?"Henry narrowed his eyes at...
ANDRIA LARGE The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
LANDON LIBOIRON That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thought of mind at the first sight on any object in an unpretentious heart is likely to be...
ANUJ SOMANY Where lies your text?
Viola: In Orsino's bosom.
Olivia: In his bosom! In wha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The best way to describe her is consistent. You can always count on her. She's great under pressure ...
JOELLE SCHWENK Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on...
VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My advice to young teenage mothers: the only man you should depend on is God, and always put your ch...
KATHLEEN BOUTIN And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it i...
BIBLE Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her ...
CHARLES DICKENS The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She never even told me how she felt," Valerie thought aloud, feeling the betrayal in her gut. How ha...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
RUSKIN BOND Anger is a cannibalistic emotion that feeds upon itself.
JAIME CONTRERAS Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into ...
BIBLE ONE MAY REMEMBER HER ON MOTHERS DAY BUT SHE IS THERE FOR YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS [Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So thi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not on...
H. A. HOPF Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not ...
H. A. HOPF Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps; She,...
THOMAS CAMPBELL What is the Pain of Losing someone you deeply love, I cant really explain it but is like taking a Bl...
HLONIM PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
SUSAN SONTAG don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
FANNY BURNEY VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.
WILLIAM COWPER I don't want to say she dominated, but she pitched her heart out. And she relied upon her fielders t...
FRED SOSNOSKI Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance fro...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in ...
WILBUR SMITH She has talent, but it is her heart that has got her this far. She has a lot of heart. When I first ...
CINDY VIRDO I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Henry shuffled the jewelled insect back out of his pocket. It amber heart warmed light through the p...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cr...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cr...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER I have no idea what Ward Churchill will be doing on Columbus Day, but I imagine it will involve the ...
DAVID LANE Boney the snowman, was a crazy, whacked-out guy, with tattooed skin and a goofy grin, and he liked t...
MICHAEL THOMAS FORD I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate h...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS “My emphasis is upon creating portraits and intuitive works that project emotional intelligence an...
DJ GARRITY England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to b...
LEON TROTSKY And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
BIBLE I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people o...
DANIEL K. INOUYE I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the lau...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their ...
MITCH ALBOM Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward...
SHERI L. DEW Hate feeds on itself, while love will always find itself fed.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
PEARL BUCK Your heart is a weapon the size of your first. Keep fighting. Keep loving. More than bombs, fire, gu...
LEAH WILSON The first thing I fell in love with would have to be my mothers breast milk. Food for life. Then I f...
NERISSA IRVING It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Look at this,' Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. 'I have disco...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mot...
PEARL BUCK Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothe...
PEARL S. BUCK He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and th...
WASHINGTON IRVING Babe Ruth's orphanage, St. Mary's, still stands outside of Baltimore, and although it's under anothe...
FRED WILLARD Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so grea...
MABEL HALE Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
TINA BROWN Good Morning, Henry. How's it feel to be a prisoner for a day?' Henry looked at Keiko. 'Best day of ...
JAMIE FORD Barry Bonds surpassing Babe Ruth's career home run mark is a good thing for Babe Ruth, because it dr...
MIKE GIBBONS But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD A mother's heart is always with her children.
PROVERB To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
STEPHEN R. COVEY He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination...
WASHINGTON IRVING She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y...
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HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Faith is spiritualized imagination.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work...
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