"A kiss from my mother made me a painter."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Benjamin West

#Mother Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Son Quotes

“Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 197), 1895.
“After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE.Â Itâ€™s been a great run.”

Source : "ESPN severs ties with Hank Williams Jr". www.cnn.com. October 6, 2011.
“Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.”
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
“People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.”
“I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.”
“I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.”
“We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.”

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