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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
VICTOR HUGO Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL Women's hands are made of tenderness and for tenderness.
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are ...
ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS 'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.
HOWARD SHORE Buy our alarm clock and you will sleep soundly.
ANONYMOUS Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly
WILLIAM HAZLITT The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children i...
KATHA POLLITT I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even ...
AMIT RAY Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO These people that are with us are glad to think that we can have peace once more, and can sleep soun...
BLACK KETTLE In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get o...
SHEENA IYENGAR I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are comin...
KP KUSHWAHA Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about...
ANNE HATHAWAY Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons...
NEIL GAIMAN I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the tru...
LISA VIDAL During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ...
VICTOR HUGO It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.
FRED SAVAGE When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes
VICTOR HUGO Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
CHRISTINE BARANSKI I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and g...
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look for...
JEANNETTE WALLS I held her in my arms, and her pressure fell and she went to sleep in my arms.
HOWARD STARK Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began
to affect the netting u...
VICTOR HUGO My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know w...
JACK WHITE Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funnies...
ROBERT LOOMIS Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was ...
AKIVA BEN JOSEPH My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to ...
PAULA YATES Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in th...
SIRI HUSTVEDT On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my thr...
ANA MONNAR Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and be...
RITA MORENO I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and thei...
A. S. BYATT In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were in...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of h...
PETER WASHINGTON What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline fo...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napp...
RITA RUDNER Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are slee...
JAMAICA KINCAID I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without...
BRIGITTE BARDOT One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children arou...
T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
JODI PICOULT The first step to take to wake up earlier is to have a nighttime routine that not only encourages yo...
JOHN RAMPTON I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That...
RICK RUBIN In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it...
IMELDA MARCOS My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little childre...
HOSEA BALLOU I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in...
BEVERLY CLEARY I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l...
CHER You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of w...
JOHN DRYDEN A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
HOLBROOK JACKSON Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made o...
PARMINDER NAGRA My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She'...
LAURA DERN It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at o...
T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Thr...
ELLEN KEY We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.
JOHN LOGAN Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."
Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her moth...
KAREN MARIE MONING I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even ...
KRISTIN HANNAH It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...
D.H. LAWRENCE As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who s...
RICHARD CORLISS Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.
MICHELLE M. PILLOW I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious res...
ZIGGY MARLEY Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. Bu...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't kn...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh
KIM CORMACK The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...
VICTOR HUGO Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo...
JOHN LOGAN To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother...
STEPHEN COLBERT Hill hasn't made any kind of a showing. What they've come up with has been rejected soundly every pl...
CAROLYN SNURKOWSKI I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of loc...
KERRY WASHINGTON Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
BERNARD LAGAT If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why ...
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VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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