"It isn't surprising that many children consider their……" — Peg Bracken
"It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight."
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Peg Bracken
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15 Quotes by Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken has 15 quotes on this site.
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
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When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.
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Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.
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Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as…
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When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I…
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There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.
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The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.
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It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
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This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a…
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You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
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Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or…
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What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble…
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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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