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Hamish Bowles Quotes

When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.

Hamish Bowles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 23, 1963

Topics

Mother Childhood Think Parent Purple

I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

Joel Osteen

Faith Today People Believe Think

I watched my parents. My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school. I always felt that I couldn't let them down. And I had a natural discipline from early on. I was always training for something.

Jennifer Lopez

Discipline Training School Parents

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Robert D. Kaplan

Now Rome Days Empire Different

Some of the best things you do are the things you don't do.

Tom Douglas

Best You Things Some

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

Robyn Davidson

Age Culture Language Study Up Moved

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

Russell Smith

Doing Well Fine Just Who Novel

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Michael Jordan

Greatness Believe Process I Believe

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

Lloyd Banks

Work Business Tough Lucky Got

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Jonathan Brandis

Love Think You Understand I Think

When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.

Dawn Richard

College Go New New Orleans Master

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Claire Tomalin

Bad Hungry Unemployed Everybody Very

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Bob Geldof

Live Personality Difficult Sure Very