"My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up."

-- Chaka Khan

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #House Quotes

“One fella went on the internet and got lots of photos of me in Love Actually, topless and naked and stuff, printed them off, stuck them on A4 paper, laminated them and sent them to me for me to sign. I was away and asked my husband to open all my mail for me, so he got quite a shock. And another man sent me a picture of a face where the nose was a willy.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.”
“I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.”
“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
“Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.”

Source : Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl
“Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.”
“The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.”
“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”

Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.

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