"My mother was the most beautiful woman..." - Quote by George Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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“To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.”
“The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.”
“The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.”
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“All I am I owe to my mother.”
“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.”
“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”
More on Gratitude
“Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
“He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.”
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”