#amid

...when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#dreams

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#does #food #give #glance #much

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#amid #been #called #charming #country

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#because #chaos #dangerous #hysterical #idealism

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? ↗

— James Thomson

#boast #creation #gay #hers #hues