#gr

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#been #cost #i #kids #like

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#believe #certain #certain age #early #grows

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#almost #become #come #exactly #exciting

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS. ↗

— Steve Tyler

#because #doing #getting #gotten #grateful

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically. ↗

— Eminem

#artistically #going #grow #i #learn

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#always #because #competitive #did #even

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#arts #cause #disgrace #educated #every

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#couple #did #generosity #grandfather #hand