"My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out."

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Source : Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).

Betty Boothroyd

#Dust Quotes #Desire Quotes #Coal Quotes

“Some stories are true that never happened.”
“My stage show is raw and unpredictable.”
“Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.”
“Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?”
“The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.”
“One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.”
“Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.”
“Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.”

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