"It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today."

-- Erma Bombeck

#Jobs Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Training Quotes

“We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.”

Source : "State Of The Union With John King", transcripts.cnn.com. September 6, 2009.
“Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.”
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”

Source : Diane Chamberlain (2011). “The Midwife's Confession”, p.345, MIRA
“When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.”
“Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.”
“Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward.Â A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.”
“It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.”

Source : Roddy Doyle (1995). “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha”, p.243, Penguin
“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”

Source : "An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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