Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: September 13, 1830 - March 12, 1916

Topics

ChildrenParentingParentsForgive

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

Joe Gibbs

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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Andrew Wiles

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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

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I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

Andre Rieu

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The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

Steve Kanaly

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I love not only the chubby ones, but also the skinny ones, black hair, the blondes... when I get up the stage, I give myself completely.

Romeo Santos

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Witty, adventurous guys really rev my engine.

Miranda Rae Mayo

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Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.

Courtney Barnett

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle

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No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Anthony Minghella

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Pierre Schaeffer

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