M Quotes
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“My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.”
Source: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872
“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.
Commenting about Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.”
“My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”
“My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.”
“My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy
“My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.”
“My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.”
Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi
“My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?”
“My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us.”
“My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you.”
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”
Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues
“My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.”
“My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.”
“My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.”
“My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."”
“My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.”
Source: The House of the Spirits: A Novel
“My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.”
Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.”
Source: Poems formerly published, with some additions,and a history of these poems, by Gilbert Burns
“My son, when you pray, do it like a person who is bidding farewell to this world, and don't assume you will have another chance to pray again. My son, know that a believer dies in between two deeds, one he offers for today, where he will get immediate blessings, and the second deed is what he offers towards the day of resurrection, and that is where he will gain the ultimate benefits”
“My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.”
“My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.”
“My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.”
“My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.”
“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”
Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn
“My son. He makes my heart grow bigger and bigger each day. There is nothing I love more than being his mommy.”
“My sone, God, of his endelees goodnesse,
Walled a tonge with teeth and lippes eke,
For man sholde him avise what he speeke.”
“My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.”
“My song is not one of peace. It is one of failure and pain. My song is one of battle and blood, death and power. It is not the song of Helene Aquilla. It is the song of the Blood Shrike.”
Source: A Reaper at the Gates
“My song titles have different reasons for the mistakes. "Don't You Evah," that's just the way that I've always said it, and I just thought it was funnier. "Yr." in "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb", it's that punk-rock way of writing "your," like "Kill Yr. Idols." And "Rhthm And Soul" was just an actual typo that someone pointed out, and I just said, "Well, I guess that's the way it's gonna be."”
“My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.”
“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”
“My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.”
“My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.”
“My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.”
“My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.”
“My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.”
“My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.”
“My songs are just little letters to me.”
“My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.”
“My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.”
“My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.”
“My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.”
“My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.”
“My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.”
“My songs are like my kids.”
“My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.”
“My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.”
“My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.”
“My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.”
“My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.”