"Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers."

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Source : Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

Judith Martin

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Humorous Quotes

“Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.147, Faber & Faber
“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”
“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.33, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
“I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting With West End Evita Elena Roger Plus News of Buckley and LuPone". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 28, 2006.
“If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.”

Source : Norman Rockwell (1988). “Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post”, Bookthrift
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.”
“There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here.”
“If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.”

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