#hood

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#accept #found #government #i #knighthood

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#continually #images #parcel #part #personality

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#childhood #copies #excited #films #finished

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#call #education #family #invest #job

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#adopt #always #amazing #back #born

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. ↗

— Henry Reed

#asleep #childhood #fall #go #happens

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone. ↗

— Harry Reid

#chambers #had #i #know #manhood

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#childhood #events #gained #games #give

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side. ↗

— Paul Reubens

#any #childhood #feel #felt #had