motto
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"My motto is: Be healthy, be happy, be kind."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Try to relax. We’re here to help” is this culture’s infuriating motto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
As such, all eyes have been on Schwesig, a former national family minister whose motto has been the "Frau gegen Blau" -- the woman against blue, the AfD's signature colour.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Beyond that, Huntsinger falls back on the festival’s unofficial motto: “Underpromise, overdeliver.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Cora started working her second day, thoughts in a knot over Valentine’s motto: “Stay, and contribute.”
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The team writing the mottoes for next year’s batch of Sweethearts has already developed a new theme aimed at that demographic sweet spot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
Alumni don’t rhythmically wave pompoms and chant mottoes over balanced ledgers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
There he prints by letterpress, in two colors, greeting cards that combine old etchings and engravings with famous mottoes and sayings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Within the fury, he emphasized Schumann’s repetitive mottoes as obsessive shards that recurred like fenceposts in a nightmare landscape.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2019
In the hallways were felt hangings, mottoes about Jesus.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"Never forget, never forgive - this is one of the mottos that reminds us who we are, what we have been through, and how resilient we Bosnians are," says Dokic.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Even when the season felt like a shadow of what it once was, her voice — her methods, her mottos, her insistence that anyone could learn — persisted.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
One of Sheinbaum’s mottos: “Collaboration, coordination, without subordination. ... Sovereignty is not negotiable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
“In adopting their mottos, symbols, and ethos on the field of friendly strife, we seek to emulate their application of these characteristics to defeat our rivals,” the school said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
One of Hitler’s mottos was that the German woman does not smoke, does not drink, and does not paint herself with makeup.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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