#abandon

I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#eyes #fathers #loss #love #memories

Either way, one should love their children, shouldn’t they? After all, children are only duplicates of your own genes. What did these children ever ask for? They wanted love, family, and support. But WE kicked them out onto streets like animals just because WE, as adults, were scared of a situation WE weren’t used to. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#children #fear #love-for-children #family

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War. ↗

— Russell Banks

#after #cold #cold war #end #particularly

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#because #dependence #economic #give #impose

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ↗

— Albert Camus

#contrary #die #impossible #love #oneself

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. ↗

— Brian Eno

#control #finding #happens #i #involve

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#assumptions #conviction #must #ready #stick

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. ↗