Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your mother and all things as your brothers and sisters. ~Native American Proverb
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~Phyllis Diller
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
#quotes #maria-callas #responsibility

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. ~Abraham Maslow
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn. ~Patricia Marx
#quotes #patricia-marx #weeping #stupidity

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. ~Ron Kind
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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