#been

Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #conversation #doing #every #feeling

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#been #being #between #birds #came

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#had #never #our #parents #slaves

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#because #been #city #cosmopolitan #creole

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been. ↗

— John Motson

#good #might #shot

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#different #i #pounds #time #weights

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#afghanistan #been #being #damned #denounced

I have been driven demented in my career. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#career #demented #driven #i

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#curious #done #everything #i #life