Lorna Luft Quotes
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
Imelda May
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
Hans Rosling
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
Ja Rule
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
Yancy Butler
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
Laura Esquivel
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
Vicki Lawrence
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
J. August Richards
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
Maeve Binchy
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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When you have girl children they torture you!
Pat Benatar
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All the women in my family were superb cooks.
Randy Wayne White
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
Natalie Cole
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
Kara Lindsay
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
Rachel Cusk
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
Salman Rushdie
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
V. S. Naipaul
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Lalla Ward
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I was looking in the mirror today and my waist is still 28 inches. I think it's all because I have a large bosom and a large ass. I have a large ass and it always just looks like I'm bigger than the rest of the girls. I could lose 20 pounds and I'm still going to have these knockers and I'm going to have this ass, and that's just the way it is.
Serena Williams
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child
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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
Lorna Luft