A Quote by Bonnie Tyler
The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.
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I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.
To have been able to buy my parents a house in London is something no one can imagine.
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
One thing I wanted to do from when I was young was buy my parents a house. I have done that in Ivory Coast.
Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store.
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.
Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.
The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you've got and what you are.
I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
Being able to compete against the best, having success against the best, and to be included with the best - that's something I really relished whenever I got on the court.
Thank God I was able to buy my mom a house, switched cars, and bought myself a house.
I was always anxious about whether I'd find a career I loved or be able to afford to buy a house.
The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.
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