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mother pain doors
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother. Barbara Mertz
mother children mistake
I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that. Ayelet Waldman
mother daughter two
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
mother children husband
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.
mother giving-up law
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive. Juvenal
mother debt owing
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. Benjamin Disraeli
mother enjoyment variety
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
mother missing attention
I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased. Jane Austen
mother children demand
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, themost rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.
children education ensure enter gradually great high indiana integrated prepared quality schools shame state system
Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K. Libby Doggett
children explore gives hope imagination sets stretched telling worlds
I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder. Jenny Nimmo
children county people problem question serious signing skip various
This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.
children stupid believe
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
children how-to-love knows
If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child. Jane Gardam
children created happy parents
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
children crazy virgos
Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them. Carine Roitfeld
children paws
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. C. S. Lewis
children reading book
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
fathers quite teens
I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar. Kazuo Ishiguro
father boys years
It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
father order able
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he. Denis Diderot
father saw seen time twice
I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict. Joe Strummer
father lay life
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
father son struck
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore Robert Burton
father feel-better men
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you. Orson Scott Card
father heart life-is
I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.
father men taught
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.