But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!
ALAN BECK
Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them.
More Alan Beck Quotes
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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words.
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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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Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
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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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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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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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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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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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Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy.
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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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