"I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband."

-- Martha Wainwright

#Husband Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.”
“There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.”
“Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.”

Source : "It Is Later Than You Think" l. 56 (1921)
“The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.”
“People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.”
“I'd like to throw Betsey Andreu and Travis Tygart in a wood-chipper. That would be my idea of a good time. Maybe I could get George to come over and help me clean up after.”
“Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.”
“By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.”

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