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The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.
– Alexander McCall Smith

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  1. To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way. – Alexander McCall Smith
  2. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
  3. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-”or up, I suppose-”replacing other people in the process. – Alexander McCall Smith
  4. If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time. – Alexander McCall Smith
  5. People don’t talk about mercy very much these days-”it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary – Alexander McCall Smith
  6. -¦the world was a vale of tears-”it always had been. – Alexander McCall Smith
  7. Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no. – Alexander McCall Smith
  8. Myth could be as sustaining as reality – sometimes even more so. – Alexander McCall Smith
  9. She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds. – Alexander McCall Smith
  10. A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people – at the most. – Alexander McCall Smith
  11. But he’ll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one’s soul. – Alexander McCall Smith
  12. Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare. – Alexander McCall Smith
  13. Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known – Alexander McCall Smith
  14. International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky. – Alexander McCall Smith
  15. If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. – Alexander McCall Smith
  16. It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to-”or you ignored at your peril. – Alexander McCall Smith
  17. There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. – Alexander McCall Smith
  18. It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. – Alexander McCall Smith
  19. It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one’s anger. – Alexander McCall Smith
  20. There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful. – Alexander McCall Smith
  21. we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. – Alexander McCall Smith
  22. And if you do see any pirates, I don’t want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? – Alexander McCall Smith
  23. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  24. …it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more. – Alexander McCall Smith
  25. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. – Alexander McCall Smith
  26. A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. – Angela Carter
  27. Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child. – Amit Kalantri
  28. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
  29. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. – GA Aiken
  30. Brothers the bible never says that you should live with your mother, it says leave your mother and father and unite with your wife. – Patience Johnson
  31. Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
  32. Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? – Debasish Mridha
  33. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother’s mother, on back to Mother Earth. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
  34. No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. – Margaret Atwood
  35. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren
  36. Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband’s, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child. – Osamu Dazai
  37. Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
  38. Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
  39. There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
  40. Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas

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