"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."

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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."

Bruce Nauman, American Sculptor

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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."

Alexis Korner, English Musician

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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."

Georges Rouault, French Artist

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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The study of music was a family interest."

Emanuel Celler, American Politician

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"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

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"Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house."

Bruce Barton, American Author

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"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

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"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."

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"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."

Home

"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."

Boston

"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."

Knowledge

"More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to."

People

"I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container."

Thought

"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."

Time

"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."

Science

"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."

Expression