Teacher's Pet 1958 Quotes & Sayings

We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of woman, after all, and women are trouble and not so valuable. Low-income mothers drag down the country - why'd they have kids if they couldn't support them? Middle-class mothers are boring frumps. Elite ones are obsessed sanctimommies. — Katha Pollitt

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith. But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.
Then again that doesn't mean they can't be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound. — Chirag Tulsiani

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down. — Monica Ali

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. — Simone Weil

The key word in Acts 1:3 is alive. Jesus showed Himself alive. Here are some of the infallible proofs He showed to verify His resurrection. — Ralph V. Reynolds

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. — John M. McHugh

Cinnamon Treat Green Smoothie — Cressida Elias

Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life. — Dan Millman

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself. — Lee Smolin

I want to be played on the radio. I want to have Top 40 hits, — Avril Lavigne

I come in as an actor, having read through the script a few times, made a couple of character-choices, thinking I'm going to be working on it during rehearsals. It's very different. It takes a while we're always like dogs sniffing each other's asses. — Jason Graae