I'm sure Laura Bush will be getting a lot of advice from her mother-in- law.
Edith Mayo
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LAURA BUSH I'm sure there will be plenty of Bush-bashing when this gets under way.
JEFF MONAHAN I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. ...
TERESA HEINZ KERRY My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
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ANN GERHART Her definitive edition, I'm sure, will be used from now on.
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BONNIE TYLER RBG often repeated her mother’s advice that getting angry was a waste of your own time.
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JERRY SALTZ I'm so thrilled and honored to stand here with America's first lady, Laura Bush.
ANGIE HARMON A steady diet of it and a teen will stop coming to the mother for advice altogether.
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KEERTHY SURESH I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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that is desired.
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TERESA HEINZ It was gorgeous, but it was very very plain, very stylish.
EDITH MAYO She was following in the tradition of the first lady displaying this kind of elegance as a statement...
EDITH MAYO All of the photographs of her wearing that gown, she looks like she's Cinderella going to the ball. ...
EDITH MAYO You're placing these women in a sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't position. It's very di...
EDITH MAYO We have a tendency to want them to be the American version of royalty, but at the same time, if they...
EDITH MAYO The fashion industry was just merciless to her because she wasn't buying a new, up-to-date gown.
EDITH MAYO We don't like to say the advertisers are wrong. But we think they're getting a lot of wrong advice.
DAVID POLTRACK My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the f...
JULIE WALTERS Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
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HABEEB AKANDE A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
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MARK LANIER You want to make sure the law works more than you want to be in a hurry to pass it. It is real impor...
DANA STEVENS My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anyw...
JOHN BARRYMORE The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.
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أنيس منصور I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
HANK AZARIA When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter ...
LOU GEHRIG A lot of people are filing now because of the law change. We're getting a lot more people coming in ...
JEFFREY FREEDMAN The Bush people really shied away from having the active military do law enforcement,
BEVERLY CIGLER I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN You would be surprised at how quick a baby will crawl toward a photo of [his/her] mother.
TAMMY ANDERSON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.
VERONICA ROTH The nagging question; If you mistakenly impregnate your mother in-law or sister in-law,will you abor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I am a lot like my mother watching her pennies.
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DONNA BRAZILE In response to a ridiculous statement by Edith: " I've gotta quote for you, Edith. --'A bird that al...
ARCHIE BUNKER I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: ...
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MARK JOHNSON My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o...
CHANTAL AKERMAN The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the...
LES DAWSON I have great confidence in her integrity and legal skills, but her judicial philosophy is not that w...
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ANSELM FEUERBACH If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEUERBACH If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right t...
ANSELM FEUERBACH If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
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NATALIE WOOD We played Laura way too much. But we are a better team with her in the lineup. It hurts not having h...
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CHARLES J. SHIELDS Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK I fortunately did not contract Hepatitis C, which is killing my mother-in-law, and it will kill you ...
COURTNEY POWLES The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f...
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ANNA GODBERSEN The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her...
CHARLOTTE P. GILLMAN It appears from a review of the facts there is no way to dress it up that there was faulty leg...
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EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
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EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON