Beloved Wife Quotes

• In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

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  Jane Porter

  Mother   Beloved Wife   Careers  

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

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  Desmond Tutu

  Children   Beloved Wife   Tea  

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

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  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother   Sex   Women  

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• He felt a momentary pang of regret that he had not spent more time with his beloved wife. But it passed when he remembered that the reason he’d gone to sea in the first place was that he had never really liked his beloved wife.

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  Dave Barry

  Regret   Beloved Wife   Sea  

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• You can’t. He has it shielded. Besides, he’s a god and can be a nasty one if you upset him. You try popping into any place where his beloved wife is and you’ll get fried faster than chicken at KFC. He doesn’t have a sense of humor when it comes to her. So wipe the frown off your face before you hurt her feelings and get gutted for it. (Phobos)

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  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt   Beloved Wife   Kfc  

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.152, Macmillan

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• That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

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  Khaled Hosseini

  Dark   Night   Men  

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.35, Penguin

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