"Parents are the bone on which children sharpen…" — Peter Ustinov
"Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth."
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77 Quotes by Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov has 77 quotes on this site.
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At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being…
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought…
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Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go…
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World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its…
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Please keep off the grass.
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us
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There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact…
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
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My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire…
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
— John Jay Chapman
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind…
— Margaret Cho
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God.…
— Horatius Bonar
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp -…
— Linda Evangelista
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.
— Shannon Miller
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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