#hood

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

— John Ciardi

#changing #neighborhood #residential #worse

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#adolescence #adulthood #childhood

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#desire #even #intention #object #only

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

— Tre Cool

#childhood #i #means #normal #normal childhood

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#greater #laws #motherhood #natural #natural laws

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

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

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#after #am #among #childhood #continue

In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#canal #dealing #hood #my own #own

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#blunder #manhood #old #old age #regret