Betty MacDonald Quotes

….I have no patience with women who complain because their mothers or their husband’s mothers have to live with them. To my prejudice eye, a child’s life without a grandparent en residence would be a barren thing.

Betty MacDonald

• Patience
• Prejudice
• Mother`s
• Residence

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• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Patience
  • Boring

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Period
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Business
  • Patience
  • Apple

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Proud
  • Patience
  • Stupidity

• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Mom
  • Insane
  • Mother`s

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Force
  • Patience
  • Achieve

• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Faith
  • Patience

• It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

  

  Khaleda Zia
  • Practice
  • Patience

• So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

  

  Bowie Kuhn
  • Why
  • Taken
  • Patience

• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Patience

• Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Deep

• For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Writing
  • Waiting
  • Cutting

• Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Goal
  • Prejudice

• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Hell
  • View
  • Tried

• ….I have no patience with women who complain because their mothers or their husband’s mothers have to live with them. To my prejudice eye, a child’s life without a grandparent en residence would be a barren thing.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Patience
  • Prejudice
  • Mother`s