"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

Twain, Mark on mothers
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers."

Saying, Jewish on mothers
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"God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers"

Proverb, Jewish on mothers
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"A mother understands what a child does not say."

Proverb, Jewish on mothers
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"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."

Joyce, James on mothers
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"The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint."

Fenton, James on mothers
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"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

Balzac, Honore De on mothers
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"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"

Alcott, Louisa May on mothers
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

Bombeck, Erma on doctors
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"You can plant a dream."

Campbell, Anne on goals
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"A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

Fielding, Henry on gossip   

"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

James, Henry on tea   

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"Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual."

Quincey, Thomas De on tea
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"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes on tea   

"To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this."

Teiga on contentment   

"The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy."

Storr, Anthony on psychiatry   

"The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit."

Mikes, George on tea   

"The best quality tea must have creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain."

Yu Lu on tea   

"Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee."

Cibber, Colley on tea   

"There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.
There'll be fruit on the tree.
And a shore by the sea.
There'll be crumpets and tea without you.

Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you.
And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain,
even that will remain without you.
I can do without you.

You, dear friend, who taught so well,
You can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire.

They can still rule with land without you.
Windsor Castle will stand without you.
And without much ado we can all muddle through without you."

Loewe, Frederick on world
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"Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on dream
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"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"

Hammerstein, Oscar on dream
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"You have the courage and power to live your dreams."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Dreams are necessary to life."

Nin, Anais on dream
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"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

Sandburg, Carl on dream
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"Dream big and dare to fail."

Vaughan, Norman D. on dream
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"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."

Allen, Woody on animals
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"Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall."

Unknown, Source on action   

"'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone."

Moore, Thomas on flowers
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"But thy eternal summer shall not fade."

Shakespeare, William on immortality
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"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

Addison, Joseph on family
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"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

Shaw, George Bernard on gardening and gardens   

"Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"A good garden may have some weeds."

Fuller, Thomas on faults
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"Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up."

Giacomini, Lynwood L. on farming and farmers
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"Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Ruskin, John on fishing
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