As proud as a peacock. ~Proverb
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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A good denial, the best point in law. ~Irish Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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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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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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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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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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