"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

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Calvin Trillin

#Funny Quotes #Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes

“Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct.”
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
“Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.”
“If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much”
“I am a fairly physical guy I stay in shape and do a lot of karate and that kind of stuff. I prefer to do my own stunts if it's possible. I'm not jumping off burning buildings or something, but rolling around and getting knocked down and stuff like that I get a kick out of.”
“This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.”
“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.”
“Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”

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