Irena Chalmers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
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In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.
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Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.
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In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.
-- Irena Chalmers
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
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Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
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Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.
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Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
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