Tony Parsons Quotes

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• I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard…
• When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and…
• People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
• I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks…
• My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
• The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
• to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go
• Love means knowing when to let go.
• Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.
• It can't always be a honeymoon
• Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we…
• Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
• I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
• I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.
• Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your…
• The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
• I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret…
• I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for…
• It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the…
• When you have a kid, money matters.

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