#aught

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#boy #child #defend #father #fists

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#club #could #father #fundamentals #game

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#add #birth #comes #daughter #death

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#because #daughter #going #had #i

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#decisions #foolish #i #know #make

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#caught #dorm #even #friends #got

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#conspicuous #humor #itself #laughter #make

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion. ↗

— George Michael

#because #before #compassion #gone #grab

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people