#kin

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#about #anything #been #brow #feel

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#childhood #drinking #greatest #influence #lust

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#because #big #big enough #boy #enough

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#improved #no problem #paltry #problem #too

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#conversational #equivalent #experience #out #sort

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ↗

— Alan Watts

#confuse #does #god #just #peel

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#change #everything #hardly #hotel #hotel room

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#character #doing #doing the right thing #get #looking

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#based #because #color #day #ever