#chi

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#any #child #college #dream #england

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#child #chord #cut #seem #sometimes

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#cringe #else #everybody #everybody else #experience

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#child #could #eggs #freeze #harvest

A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? ↗

— Gotye

#aspect #because #big #brain #collecting

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth. ↗

— Elliott Gould

#conceited #machinery #more #nothing #other

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top. ↗

— Winston Graham

#climbing #comma #ever #find #gaining

It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autistic children #bathroom #board #children #cold

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#calf #children #chipping #days #dried

I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go? ↗

— Tom Carter

#china #chinese #collecting-poetic-lines #hangzhou #ji-ju