Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Phyllis McGinley
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  1. Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts - Jim Morrison

  2. Gray hair is gods graffiti - Bill Cosby

  3. ... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever. - Markus Zusak

  4. From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.And from seed to dust There is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show... - Suzy Kassem

  5. Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything. - Frank Zappa

More Quotes By Phyllis McGinley
  1. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

  2. The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street – A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

  3. God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

  4. A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

  5. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

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