"When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you."

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Source : "Remembering Nora Ephron". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 27, 2012.

Nora Ephron

#Dog Quotes #Children Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”
“I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.”
“Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.”
“The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.”
“Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.”
“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.”
“The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?”

Source : 'La Princesse Lointaine' (1895) act 1, sc. 4
“If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.”

Source : David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.97, Profile Books

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