"According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child.... I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust... cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them."

-- Alice Domurat Dreger

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).”
“Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]”
“You have to be ready for luck.”
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
“I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.”
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
“An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.”

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