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DAY
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CREATIVE QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY
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1
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A mother is not a person
to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Fisher
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2
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An ounce of mother is
worth a ton of priest.
- Spanish Proverb
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3
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Diligence is the mother of
good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal
of any of his best wishes.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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4
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Every work of art is the child of its time; often
it is the mother of our emotions.
- Wassily Kandinsky
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5
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency,
security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob
his mother, he will not hesitate . . .
- William Faulkner
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6
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For a short while, our mothers
bodies
are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of
the world. Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it's the
earth with which we form the same dependent relationship.
- Louise Erdrich
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7
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come
by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets,
rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother
in
the whole world.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
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8
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God could not be everywhere, and so He made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
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9
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Heaven is at the feet of mothers.
- Persian Proverb
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10
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I find, by close observation, that the mothers
are
the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the
women work most for it.
- Frances Watkins Harper
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11
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I don't think necessity is the mother
of
invention - invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also
from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
- Agatha Christie
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12
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask
a fairy godmother to endow it with the most
useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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13
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If a writer has to rob his mother,
he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of
old ladies.
- William Faulkner
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14
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In the creative process there is the father, the
author of the play; the mother, the actor
pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.
- Konstantin Stanislavsky
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15
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It's clear that most American children suffer too
much mother and too little father.
- Gloria Steinem
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16
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method
and industry can make up for lack of motherwit,
either in science or in practical life.
- Thomas Huxley
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17
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It's easy to pick children whose mothers
are
good housekeepers; they are usually found in other yards.
- Unknown
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18
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My mother said to me,
"If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll
end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso
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19
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Mothers are fonder than
fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their
own.
- Aristotle
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20
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Necessity is the mother of
invention.
- Jonathan Swift
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21
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Getting caught is the mother
of
invention.
- Robert Byrne
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22
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Necessity may be the mother
of
invention, but play is certainly the father.
- Roger von Oech
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23
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Poverty is the step-mother
of
genius.
- Josh Billings
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24
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Necessity is the mother of
taking chances.
- Mark Twain
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25
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The mother eagle teachers
her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they
are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air
outside. An just so does our God to us.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
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26
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The mother's heart is
the child's schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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27
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There is no influence so powerful as that of the
mother,
but next in rank in efficacy is that of schoolmaster.
- Sarah Josepha Hale
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28
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To a mother, a son is
never a fully grown man; and a son is never a fully grown man until he
understands and accepts this about his mother.
- Unknown
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29
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The most important thing a father can do for his
children is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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30
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Diligence is the mother of
good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin
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31
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You' re not famous until my mother
has
heard of you.
- Jay Leno
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