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“The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.”

Two Seems Lasts Mother Wife Essentials Affair Jew Posts Ministers Japan April Treaties Supplies Assistants Telegraph Foreign Affairs Food Supply Fisheries Molotov

Author:Arnold Leese

“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.”

Two Film Mother Actors Father Saws Four Week Grandfather My Grandfather Begging

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.”

Way Two Jobs Mother Three Asks Nice Lucky Grateful Wine Clean Fruit Bread Excellent Meat Cheese Minimum Minimum Wage Crisps Single Mother Two Jobs Wine And Cheese

Author:Rachael Taylor

“My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.”

People Has Beens I Can Two Matter Mother Father Influence No Matter What Mother And Father

Author:Jack Wagner

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

Children Two School Together Mother Fighting Father Levels Class Middle Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Seven Grades Middle Class Middle Class Family Two Sisters

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.”

Knows Two Law Mother Hours In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.”

Believe Two Mother Turns Careers Teaching Raised My Sister Nursing Gowns

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”

Made Two Death Mother Expression Months Died Two Months Mother Died

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Thinking Two Book Mother Company Shapes Ships Auditors

Book:Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

“I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.”

Two Mother Three Actors Parent Brother Doctors Thirds Chosen Older Brother Chosen One

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”

Men Should Looks Two Mother Father Hours Died Merry Father Died My Father Died

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.”

Kind Two Mother Speech Essentials Suits Garments Bathing Bathing Suits

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.”

Two Play Moments Mother Football Died Saddest Mother Died Colts

Author:Art Donovan

“What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.”

Way Feels Children Doe Two Pain Mother Pure Direct Ruins Occasions Routes Psychics Hysteria Humiliated

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.”

People Men Needs Two Matter Mother Purpose Universe Women Born Race Fiction Teach Men And Women No Matter What Science Fiction Males Motivated Toys Inherent Nurture Time To Kill

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”

Ifs Children Two Home Mother Dad Shoes Dear Palaces Old Shoes

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

People Two Form Mother Three Language Privilege Tongue Helpless Foreign Language Mother Tongue

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

“The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.”

Two Play Feelings Body Mother Perfect Blood Baby Absolutes Unions Tiny Mood Cells Womb Madmen Hormones Suspended

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.”

Heart Two Film Mother Father Space Son Brother Perspective Monsters Intimate Interaction Time And Space Two Brothers Gods And Monsters

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Doe Has Beens Said Stills Two Stories Light Mother Night Hate Father Names Voice This World Changed Son Honor Equal Daughter Devil Celebrate Mourning What If Funk

Author:Bootsy Collins

“My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?”

Knows Said Two Mother Dear Two Things Honey Sandwiches

Author:Bill Bryson

“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!”

Mind Two Mother Can Do Struggle Saws Lessons Overcoming Grandmother Hardship Invaluable Amazing Woman

Author:Gloria Estefan

“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.”

Heart Two Hands Mother Father Bits Son Folks Contrary Broke

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.”

Knows Way Firsts Two Mother Father Speak Language One Way Canada

Author:Louis St. Laurent

“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.”

Firsts Children Two Mother Saws Exercise First Time Program My Family Doctors Weight Meetings Size Portions Peers Counseling Burgers Watchers Weight Watchers Portion Sizes

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.”

Giving Two Mother Born Existence Baby Birth Former Womb

Author:Marianne Williamson

“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.”

Two Enough Play Mother Strong Roles Wife Duty Easier Exercise Authority Contrary Obligation Strong Enough Widows Good Mother Good Wife

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.”

Two Home Kids Mother Doors Arms Labor Teeth Evening Knees Milk Mail Entering Frozen Cleaning Naive Lambs Gallons Armpits

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...”

Years Two Mother History Fate

Book:The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations

Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations

“Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.”

Two Body Mother Months Survival Daughter Female Nine Subversive Mother And Daughter Nine Months Subliminal

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?”

Knows Children Said Two Mother Restaurants Unruly Infanticide

Author:Joan Crawford

“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.”

Men Years Two Mother Lost Wonderful Son Mom Years Ago Cancer Two Years Greatest Gifts Grown Man Two Years Ago

Author:Carla Hall

“I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.”

Two Kids Mother Roles New York Mom Models Incredibles My Mom Role Models Single Mother

Author:Kim Raver

“I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.”

People Thinking Giving Two Hard Mother Father Goal Taught Brother Hard Work Raised Definitions My Brother Brothers And Sisters Mother And Father

Author:Josie Loren

“Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.”

Men Love Kind Children Two Mother Interest Creatures Painful Vain Excitement Delusion Providence Kinds Of Love

Author:Octave Feuillet

“If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.”

Ifs Men Two Mother Growth Education Teacher Progress Development India Contribution Two Things Great Men Biographies

Author:Narendra Modi

“There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.”

“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

People Ifs Way Want Two Problem Mother Father Students Treats Treated Golden Live By Golden Rule Youngsters Mother And Father Mistreat

Author:Monte Irvin

“Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.”

Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.”

“The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.”

Two Remember Young Mother Opinion Path Childhood Red Indian Freak Lawns Nun Teresa Gravel Tow Sari

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

Ifs Knows World Children Two Whole Mother Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Rooted Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

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