Margaret Turnbull quotes

Margaret Turnbull quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.”
-- Margaret Turnbull

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“When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.”
-- Margaret Turnbull

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“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”
“I feel betrayed by own mother.”
“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
“Blaire, This was my grandmotherâ€™s. My fatherâ€™s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that sheâ€™d never loved another the way sheâ€™d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”
“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”
“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
“I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.”
“She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.”
“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

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