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Before a day was over,Home comes the rover,For mother's kiss—sweeter thisThan any other thing!


William Allingham

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RODNEY DANGERFIELD Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT girl phoned me the other day and said .... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody wa...
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EUGENE CERNAN At home I drive an old Land Rover.
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ADAM COHEN THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG ...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.
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WILL ADVISE He has become sweeter, I must say. He was more of a torero before he had the accident.
DAVID ZINMAN It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort o...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's no Mount Everest, but for a little rover this was a heck of a climb,
STEVE SQUYRES At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other d...
ROSA PARKS At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any oth...
ROSA PARKS Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...lif...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, bu...
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE How much I love my mom cannot be measured in words, it's just too much and too hard to describe.
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CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Did you see more glass?
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J.D. SALINGER Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's...
A.E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all it was a day in which everything was...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I just knew Cinderella was going home. Give her a kiss and say goodbye.
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KATE MIDDLETON A round of applause went up for the rover drivers.
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ALLISON PEARSON Well, it’s probably a good thing Anubis didn’t kiss me. I would have died all over again.
KATE ROOPER 'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
SARAH ORNE JEWETT The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss.
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JEFF RANDALL Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereaf...
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MARIA SEMPLE Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I wa...
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DOROTHEA BRANDE This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second ...
LAUREN OLIVER (It was) a significant home for its day. For the prairie, it really stands out.
MIKE WOLL We were talking before the game that today would be a good day to hit (a home run). The wind was goi...
JENNIFER BIGBEE ONE MAY REMEMBER HER ON MOTHERS DAY BUT SHE IS THERE FOR YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY !
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MATTHEW BARNABY Other than our home court, nothing else even comes close.
LEE RAUSCH Kiss till the cows come home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER My mom is so special to me. I love her more than I can think
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SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT It's clear he entered the home based on a dispute they had the day before.
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SARAH RUHL But I'd take a slashed throat over a broken neck any day. At least that way I'd get to bleed all ove...
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PAUL KANE I wanted nothing for free.
Nothing came for free at our place anyway.
MARKUS ZUSAK When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
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TRENT REZNOR Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It couldn't have set up any sweeter than that.
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KATHY COOK The kiss is sweeter than sin and fiercer than temptation. I am not gentle, I am not kind; I am rough...
S. JAE-JONES My Mother

My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my ent...
EUGINIA HERLIHY So while it is great to celebrate on a day dedicated to moms, I urge each of you, to ALWAYS be good ...
CARLOS WALLACE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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MATT HAMMONS I've been away for more than 20 years. The day I left was the day I was ready to come back home. I j...
KARL MALONE The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.
DEAN ACHESON Sometimes a kiss was just a kiss.
Sometimes a kiss announced changes.
That time the kiss ...
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EDWARD W. HOWE The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at ...
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MARIO TESTINO It doesn't get any sweeter than this. It really doesn't.
JEFF BALLARD On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night....
EZEKIEL EMANUEL The stories ... seem to indicate that a lot more people have been killed over the past few days ... ...
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ALBERT BUSHNELL HART The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
JEFF RICH It was a very long kiss. It was like a dance step, the way he laid me over in his arms.
EDITH SHAIN It's like any other rivalry except for the fact that the whole county comes to watch the game.
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WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE