An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.

George Washington

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Dee Dee Myers

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Sydney Smiles

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Joe Abercrombie

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Publilius Syrus

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

John Boehner

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Paul Ricoeur

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Alexandra Kerry

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Les Brown

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

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