#story

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ↗

— Chris Ware

#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. ↗

— Peter Warlock

#history #interest #musical #only #periods

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#everything #history #idle #long #might

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. ↗

— Earl Warren

#lifetime #may #our #story #whole

Every great love starts with a great story... ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#storytelling #love

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ↗

— George Washington

#burdens #governments #history #laid #marvel

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. ↗

— Harold Washington

#american #american history #democracy #federal #federal government

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#could #country #democracy #expanded #first

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#art history #college #go #history #humanities

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#i #know #moved #often #read