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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.


Maria Mitchell

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KATIE MCGARRY I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
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ANNE BRONTE You've got the wrong girl."

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ANN ALTHOUSE A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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MARIA MONTESSORI An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
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MARIA MONTESSORI The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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QUEEN MARIA If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
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MARIA CALLAS The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
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MARIA MONTESSORI Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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MARIA MONK Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
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MARIA MONTESSORI When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
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MARIA MONTESSORI The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
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MARIA BARTIROMO To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
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MARIA BROOKS We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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MARIA MONTESSORI The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years...
MARIA MONTESSORI Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h...
MARIA MONTESSORI Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h...
MARIA MONTESSORI I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea...
MARIA VALVERDE My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,...
MARIA BAMFORD Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous...
MARIA MONTESSORI Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ...
MARIA SHRIVER I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha...
MARIA BAMFORD I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces...
MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ...
MARIA MONTESSORI You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be...
MARIA BARTIROMO It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets.
MARIA BARRAGAN When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck.
MARIA MARTINEZ I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova
MARIA SHARAPOVA I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t...
MARIA SEMPLE Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs...
MARIA MONTESSORI Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
MARIA CALLAS When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a...
MARIA SEMPLE Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.
MARIA ERVING