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Mother Teresa
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  • I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.†   (source)
  • I want to be Mother Teresa, helping the elderly.†   (source)
  • "His judgment has come upon us," Mother Teresa wailed.†   (source)
  • Mother Teresa cried shrilly, shaking her beads.†   (source)
  • Mortenson wrapped up the evening by paraphrasing one of his favorite quotations from Mother Teresa.†   (source)
  • "Nuns, visiting the room to pay their respects, had knelt to touch Mother Teresa's feet.†   (source)
  • The nun, backing out the door, left him alone with Mother Teresa.†   (source)
  • Mother Teresa said Michele had taught her a lesson in humility and marveled at the closeness of the first lady to her people.†   (source)
  • Mother Teresa demanded.†   (source)
  • Safely back in his basement, during the winter of 2000, Mortenson often reflected on those few rare moments with Mother Teresa.†   (source)
  • An ethnic Albanian born to a successful contractor in Kosovo, Mother Teresa began her life as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.†   (source)
  • Mortenson knelt on the cool tiled floor next to Mother Teresa and placed his large palm over her small hand.†   (source)
  • From the headlines of newspapers on stands at Calcutta International Airport, Mortenson learned that one of his heroes, Mother Teresa, had died after a long illness.†   (source)
  • By the time she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Mother Teresa's celebrity had become the engine that powered Missionaries of Charity orphanages, hospices, and schools around the world.†   (source)
  • In 1950, the woman by then known as Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican to found her own order, the Missionaries of Charity, whose duty, she said, was to care for "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.†   (source)
  • Mother Teresa just died.†   (source)
  • At these words her mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied "they to her shame had cut it short"), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock.†   (source)
  • And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the town, but before going into the house she called out at the door, "Come out, mother Teresa, come out, come out; here's a gentleman with letters and other things from my good father."†   (source)
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