Quotes with farm-wife

Quotes 261 till 279 of 279.

  • Bobbie Ann Mason When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Brian K. Vaughan When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
    Source: Comic Book Resources interview
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Anne Northup Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Pamela Hansford Johnson You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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  • John Gay But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Thomas Fuller Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Andre Breton Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Buddy Guy Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Bill Hader My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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