"I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament"

-- Roy Hattersley

#Party Quotes #Years Quotes #Odd Quotes

“Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.”
“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.”
“Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.”

Source : Jim Clemmer, Barry Sheehy (1992). “Firing on All Cylinders”, p.229, Jim Clemmer
“Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.”
“Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.”

Source : Nikki Haley RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”
“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

Source : Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.358, A&C Black

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