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Poisoned by his mother? It is good, very good. It ranks up there with 'I got it from the toilet seat' (on Shane Warne's explanation for using a banned substance)
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'I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.'
View quotes by Shirley Manson

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
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My father worked hard in the Uzbek judicial system and my mother was a wonderful human being. These people could not have brought up what one European politician called a gangster and racketeer. I will leave that one to his conscience
View quotes by Alisher Usmanov

Edward Clare was cleaning his teeth in the cavernous bathroom in Number Five Ann Street, Edinburgh. He was counting the brushstrokes in his head, as his mother had instructed; never less than 200. [Number 10]
View quotes by Sue Townsend

Values such as holding a door open for a woman, helping a mother off a train with a pushchair or up an escalator, worrying what time my daughter will be home and whether she is escorted, buying flowers and paying for dinner, etc.
View quotes by Mike Newell

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
View quotes by Kate Beckinsale

Love still has something of the sea
From whence his mother rose. [Love still has Something]
View quotes by Sir Charles Sedley

I love being a mother. Even though Gino and Spart have the same hobbies and everything, they're two different little personalities and ages, and I love the ages that they're at right now. It's great.
View quotes by Kristian Alfonso

As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and when my head came out he says that I looked right into his eyes and that my eyes were the color of electric turquoise and in Persian the word for turquoise is Fairuza, it also means Sacred or Precious one....don't ask me...
View quotes by Fairuza Balk

Jesu, good above all other, Gentle Child of gentle Mother, In a stable born our Brother, Guve us grace to persevere. ('Jesu, good above all other')
View quotes by Percy Dearmer

You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them.
View quotes by Albert Einstein

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
View quotes by Olive Schreiner

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
View quotes by Diane Arbus

Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outsider. The dance studio was the one place I felt accepted and 'just like everybody else' was in the dance studio. Hoping to improve the rhythm of my speech, my mother had enrolled me in a ballet class when I was five years old. The ballet class boosted my self-esteem.
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