#close

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#came #child #close #crying #got

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#bring #closer #goal #hope #injustice

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#chief #disclose #generally #known #motives

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#baby #because #child #close #go

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#apart #beer #cities #close #eyes

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #best #best friend #close #early

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#any #been #black #black music #closer

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#catherine #close #fabulous #his #i

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#because #closer #difficult #doing #family