#aught

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#any #daughter #family #first #going

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#because #better #damn #fit #into

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#badly #enough #figure #guitar #how

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #daughters #fighting #freedoms #liberty

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward. ↗

— Doug Collins

#forward #i #mind #one thing #pass

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

#forsake #helpful #human #more #pity

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#arriving #been #first #knowledge #lessons

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. ↗

— Robert Englund

#bridges #fresh #how #jeff #keep

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#bloom #burst #go #happen #hope