"Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame."

-- Billy Sunday

#Girl Quotes #Mother Quotes #Army Quotes

“But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.”
“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.”
“I love the majesty of human suffering.”

Source : La Maison du Berger (1844)
“I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.”

Source : Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster
“It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.”
“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.”
“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”
“Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English....Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance.”

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