Top 78 Quotes About Mather
#1. The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
William F. Buckley Jr.
#2. I take the chakram, my eyes on Mather. "I'm not me without it, am I?"
A smile flips across his face before he shakes his head. "You're perfect the way you are.
Sara Raasch
#3. Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine.
Sara Raasch
#4. Listen" said Mather. "I understand what you're going through, I really do. An Indian woman in college. I understand. I'm a Marxist."
Really," said Marie. "I'm a Libra.
Sherman Alexie
#5. The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.
Robert J. Allison
#6. Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
Edmund Morgan
#7. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#8. I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.
Leigh Goff
#9. I was born on Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, but we moved around a lot.
Carrie Vaughn
#10. I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and -
Sara Raasch
#11. You didn't want Mather to have the bowls, and you didn't want him to have me." He stared a moment. Then he leaned to her, suddenly fierce. "When I saw you, I knew I had to take you away from him. He had no idea what you were worth, just like he can't price the damn bowls. He's a philistine.
Jennifer Ashley
#12. Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.
James Henry Breasted
#13. Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World
Kevin Dunn
#14. Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen," he says in response.
Sara Raasch
#15. Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.
Shaffi Mather
#16. There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth.
Shaffi Mather
#17. My dad always says that you don't get to choose what happens in the world, only how you react to it.
Adriana Mather
#18. Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Cotton Mather
#19. Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton Mather
#20. Personally, I think consciousness is an accidental by-product, a feedback loop to conserve resources.
Matthew Mather
#21. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
Cotton Mather
#22. Trying to act normal with FBI running from office to office, was like trying to carry on a conversation when having a colonoscopy.
Matthew Mather
#23. What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
Cotton Mather
#24. I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.
Shaffi Mather
#25. Damon stared at me while Chuck read the message, a tendon in his neck flexing. "And we need more guns," said Chuck from between clenched teeth.
Matthew Mather
#26. That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
Cotton Mather
#27. The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.
Shaffi Mather
#28. The air's crisp with the smell of autumn, and the first few leaves have started to change color. The streets have that family-friendly feel. Store windows already have pumpkins and witches' hats in them.
Adriana Mather
#30. The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
William Mather Lewis
#31. If a man fears dogs, he may beat one with a stick when he sees it. As is the nature of all creatures, that dog will bite him. And then he may tell everyone that he was right about dogs, that they are evil. But I ask you, who is at fault in this scenario, the man or the dog?
Adriana Mather
#32. You've fought for Winter so spectacularly, and I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son. But don't forget to fight for yourself as well--there is no shame in that
Sara Raasch
#33. I followed the spiked iron fence around the church, 'First Church in Salem, Founded in 1629', the sign reads. The fence ends, and there's a big wooden trellis covered in vines.
Adriana Mather
#34. The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.
Shaffi Mather
#35. In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Shaffi Mather
#36. My life hadn't ended, but without anyone else in it, it had ceased to have any meaning.
Matthew Mather
#37. The official government radio station was still broadcasting that the New York Power Authority would have power back up to Con Edison and lower Manhattan
Matthew Mather
#38. Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
Cotton Mather
#40. Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It's a great job for a woman because she can work at home and always be there for the children.
Anne Mather
#41. He saw no cracks in the fabric of existence that demanded a Creator. Not until his existence cracked around him.
Matthew Mather
#42. Fear isn't the answer. If we're afraid of everything, then we're afraid to do anything, and that means we're giving up our freedom.
Matthew Mather
#43. The separation between the cyber and the physical worlds was disappearing. Cyberbullying was just bullying, and cyberwar was just war - the true age of cyber began when we started removing it as a descriptor.
Matthew Mather
#44. What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
Lynette Mather
#45. The evaluative criteria are then listed as: "1) storytelling quality; 2) photographic quality; 3) impact; 4) simplicity; 5) beauty" (Mich, 46).
Philippe Mather
#46. Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Your Maker's praises spout;
Up from the sands ye codlings peep,
And wag your tails about
Cotton Mather
#47. There is fundamental importance in living well even in hard times. By "living well," I mean finding a way to live that rings true to you and your values and that brings pleasure to your life.
Robin Mather
#48. Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
Cotton Mather
#49. You've always been /everything/ to me. I didn't know how to handle how much I needed you growing up---snow, I still don't, all right?
Sara Raasch
#50. Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
Cotton Mather
#51. They were famous for having bad tempers, but then again, if you sprang into existence to discover that your Creators were human assholes, you'd be pissed off, too.
Matthew Mather
#52. The only meaning to life is the one that you give it, and don't let anyone tell you diffrent.
Mathew Mather
#53. Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
Cotton Mather
#54. You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.
Cotton Mather
#55. Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
Cotton Mather
#56. The Internet is in cyberspace, but we" - he paused for effect - "are in meatspace, get it?" Opening
Matthew Mather
#57. Did I really travel ten thousand miles to watch a naked girl read a menu? Yes, I supposed I had. This is the difference between sexual fantasy and sexual reality,
Dana Aaron Mather
#58. Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
Cotton Mather
#59. Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.
Shaffi Mather
#60. It doesn't matter what I would do with magic, because leaders are valued for the wrong things.
Sara Raasch
#61. The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.
Shaffi Mather
#62. Some people will try to blow your candle out to make theirs shine brighter - don't let them! xx
Linda Mather
#63. When a character comes to life, it's like meeting a new friend for the first time.
Lynette Mather
#64. If you wanted to see into the future, you just had to look to the past. Reaching
Matthew Mather
#65. Almost everything worth believing in cannot be seen. Love, for instance.
Adriana Mather
#66. It's not like they exactly agreed. They're just kinda silent about the whole thing," I say. "Group silence can be a death sentence. It was in Salem," he says.
Adriana Mather
#67. A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
Cotton Mather
#68. banana. Soon the boys were eating pudding with sliced bananas on
Anne D. Mather
#70. I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.
Shaffi Mather
#71. Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton Mather
#72. There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Cotton Mather
#73. The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
Cotton Mather
#74. We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.
Lynette Mather
#75. You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
Cotton Mather
#76. History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
Cotton Mather
#77. You have more power than you know, Samantha. You just have to be brave enough to realize it.
Adriana Mather
#78. When in doubt - reconnoitre. It doesn't do the damnedest bit of good but it gives you time to think, and anyhow French words look and sound splendid in all military contexts.
Berkley Mather
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