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HARRIET VAN HORNE
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE
Prayer is the voice of faith.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE
Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor lo...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
HARRIET VAN HORNE
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
WILLIAN VAN HORNE
Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-w...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hat...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all
HARRIET VAN HORNE
It's still shocking he could get himself into the mental state where he could walk into a jewelry st...
DAVE VAN HORNE
All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become ...
DAVE VAN HORNE
He was the consummate professional; as good as anyone and better than most at broadcasting baseball....
DAVE VAN HORNE
Tom took great pride in the fact he didn't miss a game. Like a lot of young broadcasters of the '60s...
DAVE VAN HORNE
It wasn't just a love of the game but a love of the people in the game that he'll be remembered for....
DAVE VAN HORNE
Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exem...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. A...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won...
MRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY