Jane Gardam Quotes

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

Jane Gardam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 11, 1928

Topics

MotherLiveHappyChildMeBe Happy

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

Stephanie Coontz

MarriageCommunityBecomeModern

I listen to a lot of old-school worship music.

Sonny Sandoval

MusicListenWorshipLot

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Steven Wright

TalkTopStageHeadImprovGuy

I love looking back at the older fights; they don't make them like they used to. Just watching Tommy Hearns, the technique in his punching, the brilliance and the combinations from the likes of Ray Leonard and 'Sugar' Ray Robinson.

Tony Bellew

LoveLooking BackLookingBackSugar

I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles?

Tom Brokaw

WorkWomenChildThinkBackNeed

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

Martin Seligman

PositiveHappinessFaceChooseHuman

We've got tax and regulatory policies in this country that are driving a lot of businesses overseas, and so I think there's a lot that we can do using principles of constitutionally limited government to help address people who share these concerns.

Mike Lee

GovernmentPeopleThinkDrivingHelp

The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.

Dimebag Darrell

TimeSchoolBrotherCrazyTrainGo

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

Chief Joseph

DoneNothingTalkHeard

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Courtney Love

MotherAloneI AmNowRightSingle

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.

Chris O'Dowd

LifeDecisionShirtGuyMade

I've got to take care of the knee to finish the season healthy.

Asdrubal Cabrera

CareTake CareHealthyFinishTake

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