"Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Mother Quotes #Motherhood Quotes

“Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill.”
“I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.”
“I am, and remain, passionate about news.”

Source : "Valérie Trierweiler: France's femme formidable" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear.”
“Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.”
“What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.”
“Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.”

Source : William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”
“I eat meat. I don't go to the gym.”

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