"I would have sold my wife and children……" — Mary Roach
"I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space."
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71 Quotes by Mary Roach
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Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.
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Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
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The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately,…
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My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at…
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Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.
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It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales…
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Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
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Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been…
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In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
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The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty…
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There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on…
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To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and…
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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