#ily

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#i #i think #letter #movement #necessarily

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#acceptance #also #avoidance #child #family

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#anything #basically #could #dangerous #family

Mao recalled: "Very many members of our family have given their lives, killed by the Kuomintang and the American imperialists. You grew up eating honey, and thus far you have never known suffering. In the future, if you do not become a rightist, but rather a centrist, I shall be satisfied. You have never suffered--how can you be a leftist?" ↗

— Mao Tse-tung

#family

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same. (142) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#family #protection #family

It's mighty strange for a U-Haul the size of the one Nina rented to show up at the residence when no one has died and a family isn't hauling out furniture. The patients parked in the wheelchairs in the shade think they might have missed some news: "George was watching the TV one minute, then was gone the next." That's the story they like to hear. ↗

— Holley Rubinsky

#humor #family

Everyone will think I'm ugly." Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#peter-pan #tiger-lily #beauty

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#enhances #family #family life #few #how

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes! ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#bathroom #could #disturbing #facts #family

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#agreement #any #because #between #broadcast