#un

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#away #because #children #done #had

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#father #found #having #i #left

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#ate #bag #chicken #cooked #cried

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ↗

— Alice Walker

#found #garden #i #mother #my own

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#been #day #dungeon #even #found

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#conan #daily #daily show #get #i

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#gone #jefferson #jesus #lincoln #long

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#confidentiality #essential #information #intelligence #limits

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#circumstances #civilians #illegal #indiscriminate #ought