#rote

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons. ↗

— Patti Smith

#around #books #children #five #four

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. ↗

— Robert Smith

#guitarist #i #rhythm #singer #songs

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm. ↗

— Susan Smith

#anymore #children #end #felt #good

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child. ↗

— Susan Smith

#barrier #between #child #hurts #parent

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

#break #buildings #city #company #event

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. ↗

— Will Smith

#i #illuminate #less #likable #likeable

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#bad mood #i #mood #wrote

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#children #department #efforts #here #labor

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#approximately #book #first #i #second

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#different #digests #form #i #interviewing