Sister Parish Quotes

#1. It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh.

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#2. Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

Deepak Chopra

#3. Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?'

Bill Maher

#4. Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

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#6. It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

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#7. I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

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#8. We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

#9. Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

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#10. Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

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#11. The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

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#12. When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

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#13. Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

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#14. It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.

Lisa Shearin

#15. Many believers get together to discuss a great book and mistakenly call it Bible study. That is, in fact, a book club with a spiritual theme.

Jen Hatmaker

#16. Rooms should be timeless.

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#17. You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

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#18. I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

Jana Novotna