"Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there."

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Source : She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"

A. P. Herbert

#Mother Quotes #Dog Quotes #Motherhood Quotes

“Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.”
“Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.”
“The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.”
“When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”

Source : "Fixed" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 29, 2010.
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
“Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4Â°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.”

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