Louis de Bernieres Quotes
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
Louis de Bernieres
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
W. Bruce Cameron
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
Queen Elizabeth II
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
Cara Buono
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
Randall L. Stephenson
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein
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When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.
Paul Auster
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
Barbara Bush
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I was asked to do 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here,' and I said: 'No thank you.'
Kate O'Mara
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos
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My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.
Marya Hornbacher
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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
Louis de Bernieres
