"You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War."

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Source : "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, October 1998.

Jeremy Hardy

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #War Quotes

“But if there was no Barcelona why would you get out of bed in the morning?”
“Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.”
“A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.”
“That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.”
“I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.”
“My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson`s "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was a slave-owner. But these institutions, while they weren't perfect at the time, did allow people to prosper and to continue to struggle and build toward them. That's what you need, is good institutions and I think people will eventually live up to them.”
“I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.”

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