"A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row."

-- Art Linkletter

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #Dad Quotes

“If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.”
“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know”
“We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.”
“An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine.”
“Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.”
“Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?”
“The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.”
“Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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