#chi

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows. ↗

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#back #childhood #days #delusions #happy

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#drink #other #perfection #rarely #sensuality

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. ↗

— Tony Blair

#children #contemplate #entire #entire lives #first

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#child #childish #distorted #forth #gives

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#arena #chi #colonialism #fight #french

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

#definition #extraterrestrial #fancy #higher #life

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic. ↗