Overbearing Grandparents Quotes

#1. flirt. Why the hell not? I'm single. You're single. Let's mingle. Just because I'm not going to fall in love doesn't mean I can't have some fun.

Jillian Dodd

#2. Bex ... why did you buy an inflatable canoe?'
'It's for you to lie on. Or something.'
'And a watering can?'
'I couldn't find a plant spray.'Breathlessly I start shoving bags into the taxi.
'But why do I need a plant spray?'
'Look,it wasn't my idea, OK?' I say defensively.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual ... but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

Edward R. Murrow

#4. To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs
but a tribute nevertheless.

George Steiner

#5. Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.

Joseph Jacobs

#6. He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

Sarah Ferguson

#7. Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

John Travolta

#9. A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

Ralph Peters

#10. We forget sometimes that parents--even uncles--have lives of their own. Worlds of their own. Sides of themselves we never see and never dream are there. Even when someone describes those lives to us, we can't believe them. We know better.

Julianna Deering