What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness. ~Robert Harris
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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. ~Steven Rattner
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. ~African Proverb
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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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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. ~Maya Angelou
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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A monkey never thinks her baby is ugly. ~Haitian Proverb
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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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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Necessity is the mother of invention. ~English Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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