#chi

I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#chicken #go #i #i love #invent

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. ↗

— Sting

#children #example #get #good #gracefully

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with. ↗

— Sting

#confusing #freedom #give #i #i can

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#be nice #child #children #day #extension

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #came #children #cleaning #common

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#been #black #discussed #find #forced

What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#bathroom #children #conflicting #dichotomy #embrace

What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#bathroom #children #conflicting #embrace #entrust

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn. ↗

— John Stockwell

#military #necessary #turn #wheels

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#enough #even #evidence #exist #experience