Your mum is gone, but you are a part of her legacy – while you live, she will never really be dead. You have her blood in your veins, and her wisdom in your mind. Your child will be a part of her even...
The half is greater than the whole Hesiod, ca. 700 BC
The East End had a saying: ‘If you get a capture, hold your hand up.
Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)
I’m a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading . .
His mother had always said, ‘We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.’ He had never understood what she meant till now.
Regrets were a waste of time.
Find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Never was a truer word spoken.
She wanted to warn them; they would waste their youth because they did not realise just how fleeting it was, and because most people did.
People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn’t tell them anything then you were safe.
Her old dad used to say God is good, and he was good, but he was also very busy. He just needed a bit of help now and again.
God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13
All you had at the end of the day was your name, and that made it the more important because it was something you either respected or you were ashamed of. Your name was all you had, the only thing tha...
The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge Ezekiel 18:2
She had held them together with the sheer force of her will and her overpowering love. What would happen to them all now? Who would keep them all together, make sure they didn’t fall apart, didn’t rak...
My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn’t blow his fucking eyebrows off.
It was a pleasure when a person remembered that good manners cost fuck-all, and it went a long way.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Anna Karenina A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. François Rab...