Teresa of %c3%a1vila/early Life

Famous quotes containing the words teresa of, teresa, early and/or life:

    “St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”
    —Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
    —Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    “To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.”
    —Anne Cassidy (20th century)