"What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father."

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Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

Mary Mapes Dodge

#Father Quotes #Dull Quotes

“It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn't always turn out.”
“The fridge had been emptied of all Dudleyâ€™s favorite things â€” fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers â€” and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called â€œrabbit food.”
“If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.”

Source : " Shortcuts Yeah Yeah Yeahs launch pre-emptive strike at phone-wielding gig-goers" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.
“Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.”
“Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.”
“When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.”
“The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.”

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