#after

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#before #bring #gave #generation #house

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead. ↗

— Jules Renard

#dead #died #great #great men #long

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else. ↗

— Van Cliburn

#artist #dead #eclipse #else #evaluated

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#after #becoming #best #completely #death

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#belated #defense #delivered #eulogy #evidence

You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well. ↗

— Ian Rush

#enjoy #look #need #well #you

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. ↗

— Amy Jo Johnson

#dreams #faith #go #gotten #her

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season. ↗

— George Takei

#after #canceled #fans #know #revived

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#changed #ever #figure #figure skating #first