#sons

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#football #guys #i #into #look

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. ↗

— Alan Parker

#am #death #death penalty #i #i am

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#being #between #blink #choice #give

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. ↗

— Anonymous

#life-lessons #life

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart. ↗

— Trey Parker

#big heart #cartoon #center #crap #each

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#any #historic #history #important #know

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. ↗

— James Payn

#before #careful #cases #class #considerable

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#drinking #other #prevent #reasons #thirsty

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#birth #born #december #died #eighteenth