#becoming

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

#being #different #little #merely #modern

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair. ↗

— Usher

#becoming #better #feel #grow #hair

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#becoming #edits #films #foreign #idea

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. ↗

— May Sarton

#first #last #persons #second #should

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. ↗

— George Saunders

#ascendant #becoming #cloth #dresses #especially

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#aware #becoming #curative #effective #effects

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#appeal #becoming #been #certain #certain ways

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#becoming #big #grow #grow up #household

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter. ↗

— Otto Schily

#becoming #destroy #deter #hard #involved

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#citizenship #confer #does #driver #get