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“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“[W]earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.”

Men May Seems Mother Realizing Commitment Unconscious Ambivalence

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.”

Made States Mother Justice Levels Promise Commitment Pursue Avenues Every Avenue

Author:William Lacy Clay, Jr.

“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”

“There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.”

“When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.”

“Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most deeply held beliefs. To have such an anchor means being committed to a specific community. The only way Obama can overcome his sense of detachment and resolve his mother's dilemma is through a commitment to Christianity.”

Way Mean Mother Belief Left Community Christianity Commitment Overcoming Committed Resolve Detachment Respectful Anchors Dilemma

Author:Simon Critchley

“There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.”

Reason Mother Father Like You Commitment Scared Adventurous Mother And Father

Author:David Bowie

“The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.”

Persons Whole Life Is Mother Sports Taught Mom Commitment Inspired My Mom Whole Life

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly. "Janine Hathaway?" Tatiana's eyebrows rose nearly to her hairline. "I'm sure she has other commitments. No, we've got much better choices." A better choice than Janine Hathaway? Not likely. Before Dimitri, my mother had been the gold standard by which I measured all badassedness.”

Said Mother Choices Standards Commitment Gold Rose Guardian Eyebrows Dimitri Gold Standard

Author:Richelle Mead

“My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.”

World Self Inspiration Mother Spirituality Strong Creative Mom Commitment Extraordinary New World Sense Of Self Very Deep Happy Mothers Day Devastation Strong Sense Of Self

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.”

Men Mother Passion Father Subjects Commitment Areas Following Thoughtful Buying Awkward Electric Clue His Love Blanket Exhibits Fathers Day Referring Tokens Very Thoughtful Electric Blankets

Author:Dave Barry

“I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.”

Thinking Long Sometimes Feelings Earth Remember Spirit Mother Father Winning Strong Force Movement Commitment Paid Unions Workers Dues Budgets Contracts Farms Strong Feeling

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.”

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the totality of love is what we feel. But to really love someone requires commitment, fidelity and vulnerability. Mother Teresa wasn't "feeling" Christ's love, and she could have shut down. But she was up at 4:30 every morning for Jesus, and still writing to him, "Your happiness is all I want."”