#chi

Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your frowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#painting #third-world-childhood #attitude

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#anything #children #come #common #conditional love

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#although #archaeological #calendar #chinese #daily

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?' ↗

— Nicholas Negroponte

#back #come #did #doing #machines

Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#dance #humor #inspirational #living #age

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#being #care #children #day #little

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken. ↗

— Byron Nelson

#chicken #god #like #looks

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#also #artists #because #causes #children

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#desktop #everything #files #hierarchical #mean

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#church #conflicts #eyes #i #open