"[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably."

-- Abby May Alcott

#Father Quotes #Wife Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like Ladies and Gentlemen. That'll be a cool name for a kid. This is my son, Ladies and Gentlemen! Then, when he gets out of hand, I get to go, Ladies and Gentlemen, please!”
“I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.”
“When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.”
“I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear â€œno,â€ and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.228, Dell
“There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.”
“No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.”
“When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.”

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