Tomalin Children Quotes & Sayings

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon ... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though. — Luke Bryan

My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be. — Sonia Rykiel

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. — Winston Churchill

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. — Claire Tomalin

Embrace the magnificence that is inside you. — Debasish Mridha

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it. — Claire Tomalin

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours. — George MacDonald

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. — Claire Tomalin

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it. — Claire Tomalin