#hood

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

#capture #close #come #completeness #describing

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#band #cannot #christ #dislike #him

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ↗

— John Ciardi

#changing #neighborhood #residential #worse

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#good-and-bad #humor #humour #life #life-and-living

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#armed #beyond #direct #human-rights #interests

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. ↗

— Tre Cool

#childhood #i #means #normal #normal childhood

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#childhood #daddy #dishes #earned #garden

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#child #falsehood #fear #form #invariably

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. ↗

— Ice Cube

#going #important #important things #more #neighborhood