Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them.
ALAN BECK
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
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Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them.
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A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
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A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
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Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy.
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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words.
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What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can – don’t disappoint him.
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I take thee to be my wedded husband,’ really mean, ‘I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.
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A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
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Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
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A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.
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Boys are found everywhere – on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to.
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They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.
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